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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In October of 1942 who formed a war crimes commission?

2. In what month of 1942 did the exiled Polish government release a report detailing the mass murder of Jews since the German invasion?

3. What is the name of the young Hungarian girl who worked at a library and stayed at the family's flat in Wels for a time?

4. What is the name of the concentration camp near Lublin where an engineer was sent that used to help Pan count railway cars?

5. Pan Zabecki worked at the Treblinka railway station but he was also part of the underground movement for what government?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impressions did the author carry away about Sobibor and Treblinka after her visits, as described in the first chapter of Part Three?

2. Who was the boy Edek?

3. How did Horst Munzberger try to help his father during his trial?

4. How did Stangl come in contact with Tchechia?

5. What happened to Glazar's two step-brothers from his mother's remarriage?

6. How did Otto Horn describe Gustav Munzberger's job at Treblinka?

7. How did Hubert Pfoch manage to get pictures of Treblinka transports later used as evidence in the trial of ten guards?

8. Who was Dr Dollmann?

9. According to the author how did Stangl change when he had to talk about "intolerable" details of events?

10. How did Rome figure in Stangl's escape to another country?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stangl was assigned to Sobibor. How did that happen? Why didn't Stangl decline the assignment or at least get transferred once he was there? According to the book, what details were revealed to Stangl and others about Sobibor that showed the site to be an extermination camp? How did Stangl and the other workers handle that revelation?

Essay Topic 2

Sereny observed that Stangl experienced moral degradation and a personality change while working the death camps. On what details did the author base those observations? Are they sufficient to support the observation?

Essay Topic 3

Albert Hartl, after a tour of duty killing Jews and others, was freed from his duties, with pension, after a disputed mental breakdown. Compare that man's situation with Franz Stangl's. Did Stangl have same options? Why or why not?

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