Q: For decades, prosecutors say, Johann (John) Breyer had successfully eluded a dark past.

In his twilight years, the 89-year-old Philadelphia man was forced to defend himself against accusations that he was more than a mere perimeter guard at the notorious Auschwitz camp, where more than 1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed during World War II. He maintained that he never persecuted anyone.

In 2003, a U.S. court ruled that he was not responsible for joining a Nazi unit because he was only 17 years old at the time.

But new evidence has emerged, U.S. and German prosecutors say, that shows Breyer had to have been involved in the crimes that occurred in that place.

Breyer, who has lived in the United States since the 1950s, is facing possible extradition to Germany following his arrest Tuesday in Philadelphia, authorities said.

Federal Magistrate Judge Timothy R. Rice on Wednesday ordered him held without bail, pending an extradition hearing in late August.

"Extradition is traditionally a very long and complicated process," CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said. "It's always possible to fight extradition. It just often takes a long time."

German authorities alleged that Breyer served in the Nazi "Death's Head Guard Battalion" from 1943 to 1945 at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp and at another location, according to court papers.

German authorities have charged Breyer with complicity in the murder of more than 216,000 European Jews from Hungary, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, who were forcibly deported to Auschwitz, in southern Poland, on 158 trains between May and October 1944, according to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is the subject of this article?
2. How old is he?
3. Where did he live?
4. What was he defending himself from?
5. How many people died there?
6. When?
7. What does he say about it?
8. How old was he when he joined?
9. What did the court rule regarding this?
10. When?
11. What shows that he had to have been part of it?
12. According to who?
13. Could he be sent out of the country?
14. To where?
15. What do they say he served in?
16. During what time period?
17. Where?
18. How many people is he being charged with being involved in the deaths of?
19. Where were they from?
20. Where did they go?
A: 1. Johann (John) Breyer
2. 89
3. Philadelphia
4. accusations that he was more than just a guard at Auschwitz
5. more than 1 million
6. during World War II
7. that he never persecuted anyone.
8. 17
9. that he was not responsible for joining a Nazi unit because he was only 17 years old at the time
10. In 2003
11. new evidence
12. U.S. and German prosecutors
13. Yes
14. to Germany
15. the Nazi "Death's Head Guard Battalion"
16. from 1943 to 1945
17. at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp and at another location
18. more than 216,000
19. Hungary, Germany, and Czechoslovakia
20. Auschwitz, in southern Poland

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XVIII: DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE

'Truly the tender mercies of the weak, As of the wicked, are but cruel.'

And how did Lilias show that she had been truly benefited by her sorrows? Did she fall back into her habits of self-indulgence, or did she run into ill-directed activity, selfish as her indolence, because only gratifying the passion of the moment?

Those who lived with her saw but little change; kind-hearted and generous she had ever been, and many had been her good impulses, so that while she daily became more steady in well-doing, and exerting herself on principle, no one remarked it, and no one entered into the struggles which it cost her to tame her impetuosity, or force herself to do what was disagreeable to herself, and might offend Emily.

However, Emily could forgive a great deal when she found that Lily was ready to take any part of the business of the household and schoolroom, which she chose to impose upon her, without the least objection, yet to leave her to assume as much of the credit of managing as she chose--to have no will or way of her own, and to help her to keep her wardrobe in order.

The schoolroom was just now more of a labour than had ever been the case, at least to one who, like Lilias, if she did a thing at all, would not be satisfied with half doing it. Phyllis was not altered, except that she cried less, and had in a great measure cured herself of dawdling habits and tricks, by her honest efforts to obey well- remembered orders of Eleanor's; but still her slowness and dulness were trying to her teachers, and Lily had often to reproach herself for being angry with her 'when she was doing her best.'

1. Who found they could forgive a great deal?
2. Who was forgiven?
3. Had her routines before been generous to others?
4. Did her housemates see a big difference in her?
5. How many places was she ready to participate in helping with?
6. What were they?
7. Which one was more work?
8. Was she able to only go halfway in effort in there?
9. Who tried to comply with directives?
10. Whose directives?
11. Who had to remind herself to not be cross with the girl?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Emily
2. Lily
3. yes
4. no
5. Two
6. the business of the household and schoolroom
7. The schoolroom
8. no
9. lily
10. Emily
11. lily

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER NINETEEN.

A NIGHT JOURNEY.

"And he must post, without delay, Along the bridge and through the dale. And by the church and o'er the down." _Wordsworth_.

John Hewlett had finished his day's work, and come home in the dusk of an October evening. He found the house hung all over with the family linen, taken in to shelter from a shower; but not before it had become damp enough to need to be put by the fire before it could be ironed or folded. His mother was moaning over it, and there was no place to sit down. He did not wonder that Jem had taken his hunch of bread and gone away with it, nor that his father was not at home; but he took off his boots at the back door, as his aunt never liked his coming into her room in them--though they were nothing to what he would have worn had he worked in the fields--and then climbed up the stairs.

Judith was sitting up in bed, with her teapot, tea-cup, and a piece of stale loaf, laid out on a tray before her; and little Judy beside her, drinking out of a cracked mug. Judith's eyes had a strange look of fright in them, but there was an air of relief when she saw Johnnie.

"Well, aunt, is that all you have got for tea?"

"Poor mother has been hindered; but never mind that," returned Judith, in a quick, agitated tone. "Judy, my dear, drink up your tea and run down to help mother, there's a dear."

1. How did John find the house?
2. what had to happen to the linens?
3. Why?
4. What time of day was it?
5. where was he coming from?
6. in what month?
7. who was moaning?
8. could she sit?
9. Where was Judith?
10. with what?
11. was the dad home?
12. Who may have stolen his bread?
13. Where did he take off his shoe?
14. Why?
15. What was his aunts name?
16. Who was injured and stalled?
17. Who should drink fast?
18. How did Judith's eyes look?
19. Was she ever relaxed?
20. When?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. hung all over
2. be put by the fire
3. it become damp
4. dusk
5. work
6. October
7. His mother
8. No
9. in bed
10. her teapot, tea-cup, and a piece of stale loaf
11. No
12. Jem
13. the back door,
14. his aunt never liked his coming into her room in them
15. Judith
16. mother
17. Judy
18. they had a look of fright
19. Yes
20. she saw Johnnie