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Assignment: FREEDOM TO LIVE

1. What were the four memories that gripped Hartman as a kid?

2. Why does Hartman say he could have been born anywhere else but Germany?

3. Why did Hartman say he loved history as a study but dreaded her as a force?

4. What was Hartman's religious background?

5. What is the importance in Hartman's life of the oath the students had to take that they were "born to die for Germany?"

6. What did Hartman mean when he said that under the Kaiser, "the reduction of the vital to the mechanical was implicit rather than explicit," but that it became explicit in Nazi Germany?

7. In what way did Hartman love Germany?

8. Where did Hartman attend college?

9. What was the reason Hitler was able to gain such power, according to Hartman?

10. How and why did Hartman get to the United States?