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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. What is one of Hitler's worst decisions?

2. By September 1944, as the Allies are poised to invade Germany, Hitler orders what?

3. When Speer and Guderian suggest to Hitler assigning an army Commander-in-Chief parallel with the autonomous chiefs of the Navy and Air Force, how does Hitler feel?

4. Speer mediates a meeting of Goering, Guderian, Zeitzler, and Fromm to discuss what?

5. Himmler refuses to be excluded from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Speer's life become threatened? How is his life spared?

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 Chapter 27 open?

4. What happens to Speer and the other defendants at Nuremberg?

5. What takes place while Speer recovers for six weeks?

6. How are the Allies able to invade Germany? How does Hitler deal with this invasion?

7. What does the Allied bombing on November 12, 1944 do to Germany? What are the reactions to this bombing?

8. What does Hitler do when he ignores Speer's calls to cripple key Allied resources? How does he then calm Speer's fears of an armaments collapse?

9. What is Operation Valkyrie? What is the result of this operation?

10. What does Hitler say during his last radio address?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Speer attempts to keep Hitler and his henchmen from destroying the economy.

Part 1) How does he go about doing this? Is he successful? Why or why not?

Part 2) Could he have used better tactics? If so, how? If not, why not?

Part 3) How does the German economy play a role in Hitler's rise to power, rule, and ultimate downfall?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Hitler aims for a Great Germanic Reich.

Part 1) Describe Hitler's plans for this Reich. How have his plans developed and evolved throughout this book? What does Speer think about these plans?

Part 2) How is this foreshadowed early in the book? Why do his plans for this powerful nation fall through?

Part 3) Why might this power be so important to Hitler? Why might he be able to convince others that they too want a powerful Germanic Reich?

Part 4) Who has power in your world? How have they come by this power? How do they deal with this power? How does it affect you?

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