Bystanders

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

If somebody knocks on your door at four in the morning and you see a little eight year old boy alone, shivering in the cold, who was separated from his parents, who didn't have anything to eat, and he's begging you to let him come in. Would you open the door...knowing that if you did do that, that you'd lose your life...you and your family would lose their lives...by taking that little boy in? That's not an easy thing to answer. Or would you shut the door and go to sleep? - Ernest Drücker

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1. The above statement was made by

A German who lived near a concentration camp.
A German army officer.
A Holocaust survivor.
The relative of a German SS officer.

 

2. To not be a bystander in Nazi Germany, meant, in many cases, to risk your life and possibly those of your loved ones.

True
False

 

3. According to the passage above, a bystander is

A person who would give the child bread.
A person who would let the child in from the cold.
A person who would close the door and go to sleep.
A person who would hide the child from Nazis.

 

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

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the labor leaders, and I did not speak out because I was not a labor leader. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me. -Martin Niemöller

 

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4. The above quote was made by

a policeman
an official in the German Confessing Church
a Nazi SA man
a German Jew

 

5. The only bystanders were German.

True
False

 

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