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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 'In the interest of maintaining military discipline...'—The massacre of children in Byelaya Tserkov, military chaplains and the Wehrmacht.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the German soldier bring the little girl in to her execution in "SS-Obersturmführer August Häfner on the killing of the children"?
(a) By holding her hand.
(b) Pushing her.
(c) Giving her a piggy back ride.
(d) Carrying her.

2. Who wrote the reports whose extracts form "Quite happy to take part in shootings"?
(a) S.A. officers.
(b) Polish civilians.
(c) Police officers, government officials, SS and members of Einsatzgruppen.
(d) Russian prisoners of war.

3. What do the three documents in "Pushed to their psychological limits" say victims sometimes did that was difficult for the killer to handle?
(a) They fled.
(b) They fought back.
(c) They resisted.
(d) They hid.

4. What method of execution followed shooting the victims while waiting for the industrial solutions to be put in place?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Gas vans.
(c) Asphyxiation.
(d) Zyklon B.

5. Where were the Jewish children held after the execution of their parents?
(a) A building inside the town.
(b) A building on the outskirts of the village.
(c) A building in the forest.
(d) A building near a ravine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the statements forming "Quite happy to take part in shootings" not show?

2. How were some Jewish executions organized according to "Execution as popular entertainment"?

3. What is the third document in "The brutalization of precious German Manpower" an excerpt of?

4. What are the three documents about presented in "Pushed to their psychological limits"?

5. What was the Nazi government concerned about regarding institutionalized murder, according to "The brutalization of precious German Manpower"?

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