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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 year did Hitler write "Mein Kampf" containing his new Europe concept based on racial theories?

2. In what year was the Chelmno extermination camp set up?

3. According to Stangl, who signed the order sending him to Berlin?

4. How far was Chelm from Sobibor?

5. What is the name of the officer that revealed, in drunkenness, what went on at Sobibor to Stangl's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Stanislaw Szmajzner describe the Sobibor camp set-up?

2. What were the sleeping arrangements at Sobibor the first few weeks after Stangl arrived?

3. As one of five men with medals, why was Stangl anxious within three days of the Nazis invading Austria?

4. Why were concentration camps originally set up as opposed to extermination camps, according to the author?

5. What body officially approved the four extermination camps and what was the name of each camp?

6. What was Albert Hartl's experience while riding with Colonel Blobel?

7. What events occurred in Stangl's life after he became a policeman, but just before the Nazis invaded his homeland?

8. How did Professor Mayer end up writing the opinion about Catholic Church opposition to euthanasia?

9. Describe Stangl's interview with SS officer Globocnik before Stangl was sent to Sobibor?

10. Who was Brack in relation to T4 and Stangl?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What efforts did Stangl and others take to minimize the horror of the death camps for the victims as well as the camp workers? Be sure to include the false railway station in your responses. How effective were those efforts (support with details as described in the biography)?

Essay Topic 2

At one point in the book it was observed that just as the prisoners were trying to survive the camps, so were Franz Stangl and the other free men assigned to work at Treblinka. What details in the book illustrate that point, and how was this cultivation for survival reflected in their attitudes, daily operations, etc.?

Essay Topic 3

Pope Pius XII was mostly silent on euthanasia and Jewish genocide by the Nazis. Why? Please cite personal and religious reasons. When he was no longer silent, what was the changing climate that he felt "safe" enough to issue statements of opposition for either form of genocide?

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