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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. Speer waives appeal to how many years imprisonment?

2. Industrialists give sober reports. How do Hitler and the generals react?

3. Smelling danger, Bormann calls Speer an enemy of the Party who intends to do what?

4. Speer is reluctant to accept the "Central Works" under what?

5. What does this bombing do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chapter 28 open?

2. What does Hitler do regarding the Todt Organization's building of defensive positions on the Dnieper? Why does he do this? How does this affect Germany?

3. How does Speer help evacuees during Hitler's "scorched earth" plan?

4. What happens to Speer as the war comes to an end?

5. What happens when Speers warns Hitler that the end is near?

6. How does Chapter 29 find Speer?

7. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

8. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

9. What takes place while Speers is in the hospital for two months?

10. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A "Committee of Three" is formed to insulate Hitler from others.

Part 1) What is the "Committee of Three?" Who makes up this committee? Why? Why do Hitler's men believe this committee is necessary? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does this committee influence Hitler? How does this committee influence and benefit Speer?

Part 3) How does the formation of this committee foreshadow Hitler's downfall?

Essay Topic 2

Speer spends two months in the hospital.

Part 1) Why does he spend two months in the hospital? What takes place during these two months?

Part 2) How does this time affect his influence over Hitler? Why? How do these two become more estranged?

Part 3) How does this time both help and hurt Speer? How might this change in Speer affect his later trial?

Essay Topic 3

Speer exploits the captured countries to produce civilian goods.

Part 1) How does he go about doing this? Why does he do this? How does this benefit Germany?

Part 2) How does the production of weaponry become an issue in this book? How does it affect the war?

Part 3) How does this exploitation affect your opinion of Speer? Should he exploit captured countries in this way? Why or why not?

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