![]() Gitta Sereny is of Hungarian-Austrian extraction and is trilingual in English, French and German. Gitta Sereny died in June 2012 Show Less Product Details Her books include: The Medallion, a novel The Invisible Children, on child prostitution Into That Darkness and a biographical examination of Albert Speer. She also contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines around the world. She wrote mainly for the Daily Telegraph Magazine, the Sunday Times, The Times, the Independent and the Independent on Sunday Review. Her journalistic work was of great variety but focussed particularly on the Third Reich and troubled children. In 1949 she married the American Vogue photographer Don Honeyman and settled in London, where they brought up a son and a daughter and where she began her career as a journalist. ![]() She gave hundreds of lectures in schools and colleges in America and, when the war ended, she worked as a Child Welfare Officer in UNRRA displaced persons' camps in Germany. During the Second World War she became a social worker, caring for war-damaged children in France. She is seeking an answer to the question which beggars reason: How were human beings turned into instruments of such overwhelming evil? To horrify is not Sereny's aim, though horror is inevitable. ![]() Read more saw himself, and 'as he was seen by many others, including his wife. Sereny, after weeks of talk with him and months of further research, shows us this man as he. Stangl commanded Treblinka and was found guilty of co-responsibility for the slaughter there of at least 900, 000 people. Gitta Sereny's investigation of this man's mind, and of the influences which shaped him, has become a classic. Only four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evil Category: (G) General (US: Trade) (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG 1DVP BG HBJD HBTZ1 HBWQ. After weeks of talk with him and months of further research, the book shows us this man as he saw himself, and 'as he was seen by many others, including his wife. A biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp. Description for Into That Darkness Paperback.
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