Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #112471 in Books
• Published on: 1995-08-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 379 pages

Synopsis
Only four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. Franz Stangl was one of them; he commanded Treblinka and was found guilty of co-responsibility for the slaughter there of at least 900,000 people. Aiming to discover how human beings were turned into instruments of such overwhelming evil, Gitta Sereny investigates Stangl's mind, and the influences which shaped him. Having talked to him for weeks and conducted months of research, she portrays the man as he saw himself and as he was seen by others, including his wife.

From the Publisher
The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evil.

About the Author
Gitta Sereny is of Hungarian-Austrian extraction and is trilingual in English, French and German. During the Second World War she became a social worker, caring for war-damaged children in France. She gave hundreds of lectures in schools and colleges in America and, when the war ended, she wored as a Child Welfare Officer in UNRRA displaced persons' camps in Germany. 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.
Her journalistic work is of great variety but has focussed particularly on the Third Reich and troubled children. She has written mainly for the Daily Telegraph Magazine, the Sunday Times, The Times, the Independent and the Independent on Sunday Review. She has also contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines around the world.
Her other books are The Medallion, a novel; The Invisible Children, on child prostitution; Into That darkness, on Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp, and a biographical examination of Albert Speer.