NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 31, 2015

Q: A Nazi train filled with gold, gems and guns reportedly went missing 70 years ago near Walbrzych, Poland. Now, a Polish official says ground-penetrating radar images have left him "99% convinced" that a World War II German military train is buried in a closed tunnel near the city. Where is Poland?

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Q: Earlier this month, a Pole and a German told authorities in Walbrzych that they knew the location of the armored train. Germany is located . . .

A. North of Poland

B. East of Poland

C. South of Poland

D. West of Poland

D. Slightly smaller than New Mexico, Poland shares a 290-mile border with Germany. The pair who revealed the location to officials said they want 10% of the value of anything found. The location reportedly came in a deathbed confession from a person involved in concealing it.

Q: Officials did not reveal the exact location of the find but said they hoped to find looted art on the train. At the start of World War II, Poland was invaded and partitioned by Germany and what other nation?

A. Austria

B. Belarus

C. Soviet Union

D. Ukraine

C. When Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin agreed to divide Poland in 1939, Belarus and Ukraine were part of the Soviet Union and Austria was part of Nazi Germany. The Nazis and Soviets also signed a non-aggression pact that was broken when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.

Q: The World Jewish Congress said much of the plunder on the train “may have been stolen from Jews before they were sent to death.” In 1943, Jews in Poland's capital revolted against Nazi troops trying to send them to the death camps. What is Poland's capital?

A. Warsaw

B. Treblinka

C. Chelmno

D. Auschwitz

A. In the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a few hundred fighters armed with handguns and Molotov cocktails fought German troops backed by tanks and armored cars. It was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II. Treblinka, Chelmno and Auschwitz were three of the six major extermination camps the Nazis built in Poland.

Q: Of the nearly 6 million Poles killed by German occupiers in World War II, how many were Jews?

A. Nearly all

B. About half

C. Nearly two thirds

D. Less than a third

B. Between 2.7 and 2.9 million Jewish Poles were murdered, or about 90% of the Jews living in Poland at the start of the war.  Of all the countries involved in the war, Poland lost the highest percentage of its citizens.