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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 'Their soldierly conduct is exemplary'—Kulmhof (Che?mno) extermination camp in the Wartheland Reichsgau.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does the "Foreword" ask about the mass murder and public perception?
(a) How people can kill without learving significant traces.
(b) How people become evil when they start as seemingly good people.
(c) How mass murder could consistently be carried on in public view without opposition.
(d) How people can watch people get killed without bombing the installations used to kill them.

2. What was the author of "Once again I've got to play general to the Jews" job while he wrote his journal?
(a) Cook.
(b) Jewish slave labor organizer.
(c) Driver.
(d) Camp guard.

3. What was the rationale behind the executions in "SS-Obersturmführer August Häfner, Sonderkommando 4a"?
(a) The supposed murdering of 200 people.
(b) The supposed murdering of 2,000 people.
(c) The supposed murdering of 20 people.
(d) The supposed murdering of 3,000 people.

4. What did some believe the executioners were forced to chose between?
(a) Being an executioner or going to prison.
(b) Being a victim or an executioner.
(c) Being an executioner or being fired from the army.
(d) Being an executioner or being sent to the front.

5. What does The Good Old Days use to make his point?
(a) Texts by survivors.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Juxtaposition of comments and account of atrocities.
(d) Drawings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Fritz describe the Jews?

2. Who was the first document written about in "Each time a victim was beaten to death they started to clap"?

3. Why did Kretschmer say the local citizenry were like parrots?

4. When did the Babi Yar ravine massacre occur?

5. How many Jewish Lithuanians were killed in June 1941?

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