Week Seven Prompt: Select your favorite quote from your reading this week. Provide the quote, the name of the book and the author; after doing so, in 3-5 sentences, explain why you selected/responded to the quote (did you connect with it? did it make you think of something specific? did it make you feel a specific way?)

Critical thinking questions what factors led to the creation and implementation of operation reinhard? how did the residents of the ghettos respond to mass deportations and what occurred when the residents realized what happened to those deported? what did rudolf hoess’s testimony at the end of the war suggest about the final solution and planned deportation and resettlement? how did operation reinhard differ from earlier nazi actions and how was it similar? was resettlement seriously considered and why was it not used?