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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Kretschmer enthusiastic about in his letters?
(a) His income.
(b) Being away from his wife.
(c) The weather.
(d) His killing people.

2. What was Taubner sentenced to?
(a) Several years in prison.
(b) Several months in prison.
(c) A fine.
(d) Several days in prison.

3. What did the Germans first use to gas people at Belzec?
(a) Wood smoke.
(b) Gasoline.
(c) Zyklon B.
(d) Bottled gas or exhaust fumes.

4. How did Fritz describe the Jews?
(a) Monkey people.
(b) Ape people.
(c) Sons of Abraham.
(d) Jude.

5. When was Dr. Kremer put to trial?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1949.

6. Who did Kurt Franz see German soldiers fraternize with?
(a) Female guards.
(b) Nurses.
(c) Local peasants.
(d) Female prisoners.

7. What was the position of the man who said "I only took part in the murder of some three million people out of consideration for my family"?
(a) Head of the political department.
(b) Head of war department.
(c) Head of transportation.
(d) Head of chemical production.

8. When did Taubner commit his crime of unsanctioned mass murder?
(a) October 1942.
(b) October 1943.
(c) October 1941.
(d) October 1940.

9. What was Mentz sentenced to after the war?
(a) 15 years.
(b) Death.
(c) Life in prison.
(d) 25 years.

10. 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) Pushing her.
(b) Giving her a piggy back ride.
(c) By holding her hand.
(d) Carrying her.

11. What were the documents in the first section of "The bodies piled up in the streets" marked as?
(a) Do not copy.
(b) Hitler's Eyes Only.
(c) Top Secret.
(d) Secret.

12. Where was Bialacerkiew located?
(a) 30 miles from Kiev.
(b) 50 miles from Kiev.
(c) 40 miles from Kiev.
(d) 20 miles from Kiev.

13. What did "Verdict against SS- Untersturmführer Max Täubner, 24 May 1943" make clear Taubner wasn't assigned as?
(a) A medic.
(b) An executioner.
(c) A chaplain.
(d) A guard.

14. How did Kretschmer sign his letters?
(a) Your father.
(b) Karl.
(c) Your Papa.
(d) Obersturmführer.

15. How many children were left after the first round of executions?
(a) 12 children.
(b) 90 children.
(c) 45 children.
(d) 60 children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visited the building where the children were located?

2. What triggered an expansion of the killing capability of Belzec?

3. What was Dr Kremer put to trial for?

4. Why was Taubner charged?

5. What did Eichmann express horror at, according to "Interrogation of Adolf Eichmann"?

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