'the Good Old Days': The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders Quiz

Ernst Klee

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Foreword, Preface, and Introduction

The brutalization of precious German Manpower

Each time a victim was beaten to death they started to clap

Pushed to their psychological limits

Quite happy to take part in shootings

Once again I've got to play general to the Jews

Execution as popular entertainment

'In the interest of maintaining military discipline...'—The massacre of children in Byelaya Tserkov, military chaplains and the Wehrmacht

'Practical work for our Führer'—Daily life during the Holocaust

'His attitude towards the Jews is quite impossible'—Documents on persecution in the White Russia Generalbezirk

'None of the Jews that were killed is any great loss'—Secret verdict of the SS and Police Supreme Court in Munich

'Their soldierly conduct is exemplary'—Kulmhof (Chełmno) extermination camp in the Wartheland Reichsgau

'The Wannsee Conference decisions implemented'—The extermination camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka'

'Food in the officers' mess excellent'—Auschwitz

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'the Good Old Days': The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders Quiz

'the Good Old Days': The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders Quiz

What followed in some instances of a soldier refusing to participate in mass killing? (from Quite happy to take part in shootings)

How did Kretschmer sign his letters? (from 'Practical work for our Führer'—Daily life during the Holocaust)

What was the author of "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews" convicted of after the war? (from Once again I've got to play general to the Jews)

What was Mentz's nickname? (from 'The Wannsee Conference decisions implemented'—The extermination camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka')

What type of worker did the author of the documents in the first section of "The bodies piled up in the streets" say were wanted? (from 'His attitude towards the Jews is quite impossible'—Documents on persecution in the White Russia Generalbezirk)

'the Good Old Days': The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders Quiz

'the Good Old Days': The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders Quiz

What followed in some instances of a soldier refusing to participate in mass killing? (from Quite happy to take part in shootings)

How did Kretschmer sign his letters? (from 'Practical work for our Führer'&mdash;Daily life during the Holocaust)

What was the author of "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews" convicted of after the war? (from Once again I've got to play general to the Jews)

What was Mentz's nickname? (from 'The Wannsee Conference decisions implemented'&mdash;The extermination camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka')

What type of worker did the author of the documents in the first section of "The bodies piled up in the streets" say were wanted? (from 'His attitude towards the Jews is quite impossible'&mdash;Documents on persecution in the White Russia Generalbezirk)

How did Kretschmer sign his letters? (from 'Practical work for our Führer'—Daily life during the Holocaust)

What was Mentz's nickname? (from 'The Wannsee Conference decisions implemented'—The extermination camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka')

What type of worker did the author of the documents in the first section of "The bodies piled up in the streets" say were wanted? (from 'His attitude towards the Jews is quite impossible'—Documents on persecution in the White Russia Generalbezirk)