Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience Test | Final Test - Hard

Gitta Sereny
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Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience Test | Final Test - Hard

Gitta Sereny
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. The "tube" is the "___" to the gas chambers that had to be cleaned up from defecation at Treblinka.

2. Who were the psychiatrists, professors at T4?

3. Who were worse transport guards of Jews railroaded to Treblinka than the Ukrainians?

4. When in 1942 did Stangl order the construction of the fake railway station at Treblinka?

5. According to whom did Hitler give a promise and shake hands with a Cardinal of the Church that no bishop would be arrested for protesting their activities?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Pope Pius XI concerned about National Socialism?

2. Who was the boy Edek?

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

4. What was ironic to Glazar and Unger about Mannheim?

5. Why was Stangl's wife shocked by Father Mario's response to her talk about her husband under confessional?

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

7. How did T4 psychiatrists view eastern Jews in relation to exterminating them?

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

9. From the Treblinka Camp diagram and Legend what were the main camp divisions?

10. Why did Stangl's wife make a weekly six hour round trip by train between Wels and Glasenbach?

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

Frau Stangl wanted her husband to escape his prison situation and he was reluctant. How did this compare to earlier in the book when a man told some Jews he has in the woods he would rather they run off than get killed, but the Jews came back anyway? How did Frau Stangl convince her husband to finally leave his prison situation?

Essay Topic 3

In initial interviews Stangl talked about his life in Austria with his parents, his new career, and the changing political atmosphere of his country as the 1938 invasion approached. What was going on in Stangl's life? How did he seem to interact with his parents? Co-workers? His new wife? How did these interactions shed light on Stangl the man?

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