Liberators

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1. Allied forces were well prepared for what they found in concentration camps.

True
False

Study the image below in order to answer the following questions:

2. Select the choice that best describes the image above.
Camp survivors bury their dead at Nordhausen.
Allied forces bury the German dead at Nordhausen.
German civilians are forced to bury corpses from the Nordhausen concentration camp.
Hospital brigades look for battle wounded from the trenches.

 

Read the passage below in order to answer the following questions.

I have never felt able to describe my emotional reaction when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of decency...I visited every nook and cranny of the camp because I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.

 

 

 

 

 


3. The statement above was made by
Josef Stalin
Lieutentant Colonel Lewis H. Weinstein
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
British Officer Peter Coombs

 

4. Allied soldiers were direct witnesses to the aftermath of concentration camp horror.
True
False

 

5. There are people today who believe that reports given about atrocities in Nazi concentration camps were exaggerated and even fabricated.
True
False

 

Study the image below in order to answer the following questions.

6. The picture above depicts
A food line for soldiers at the Russian front
A soup line for survivors at the Mauthausen women's camp
A food line for allied soldiers after liberation
A soup line for locals at Mauthausen

 

7. The only liberators were American.
True
False

 

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