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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. How many Jews did Helen Waterford say lived in her hometown of Frankfurt before the Kritallnacht?

2. On what date did Helen and Siegfried give over Doris to the couple that would raise her?

3. When did Hitler invade the Netherlands?

4. What was the Red Baron's name?

5. What did Alfons Heck's grandmother want him to be when he grew up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Alfons's perceptions of Auschwitz after the Jews in Wittlich were taken away?

2. When did Germany attack Holland? How did this play out?

3. How was Heinrich Himmler involved in Kristallnacht?

4. What was the Flieger Hitlerjugend? How was Alfons involved with this organization?

5. Who was Adolf Hitler? How and when did he come to power?

6. When did England and France join into the war? Why?

7. Why did Alfons believe the years between 1942 and 1944 were the best of his life?

8. Who was Adolf Eichmann and what was his role in the Third Reich?

9. What led to Siegfried losing his job? What were his circumstances like after this?

10. What was the SS? When was it formed? What were its objectives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happened to Doris during the war? With whom did she stay? How did she avoid detection? What happened to the girl after the war?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the backstory of Alfons Heck. Where was he born? Who raised him? How did he become involved in the Hitler Youth?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the German military tactics in the war. What does "Blitzkrieg" refer to and how was this employed by the Nazi military? What were the military's objectives? How did they go about meeting those objectives?

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