A psychological portrait of Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production. Speer oversaw operations in the munitions factories in which tens of thousands of slave laborers died. During the Nuremberg trials, Speer pleaded ignorance to the Holocaust and evaded capital punishment. In this work, the author investigates Speer's ...
This biography details the life of Franz Stangl, a sentenced war criminal. During World War II, Stangl served as commandant of the Treblinka death camp where an estimated 870,000 prisoners were murdered. Gitty Sereny--famous for her controversial true crime books--claimed that she wrote this book "to penetrate the personality of at least one of ...
Convicted at the age of 11 of killing two boys, Mary Bell spent the next 27 years in prison. When Bell was released in 1980, she agreed to share her story with the famous true crime biographer, Gitta Sereny. During the intimate interview, Bell divulged the horrifying details of her childhood--endless accounts of being severely beaten and sexually ...
Convicted at the age of 11 of killing two boys, Mary Bell spent the next 27 years in prison. When Bell was released in 1980, she agreed to share her story with the famous true crime biographer, Gitta Sereny. During the intimate interview, Bell divulged the horrifying details of her childhood--endless accounts of being severely beaten and sexually ...
First published in 1974 and unavailable for several years, a biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp, who was found guilty of co-responsibility for the slaughter there of at least 900,000 people.
In "The Healing Wound" Sereny presents a vital historical account of Germany in the 20th century, exploring the guilt which is in many ways the legacy of Nazism. She argues that despite the achievements of Germany since 1945, the awareness of the horrors committed in their name remains in the minds of Germans to this day. 32 photos.
Pieces together the damaged life of Mary Bell, who aged 11 was tried and convicted of manslaughter after the death of two young boys. Only as an adult has she been able to realize the moral enormity of her crimes. The story of her life forces the reader to consider society's responsibility for children's crime. Originally published in 1998.
Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together the best of her writing on Germany from over sixty years. It amounts to an extraordinary portrait of the country and its people, how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectively and in specific instances - and how the burden ...
IN 1945, Germany underwent a radical political transformation, moving certainty and irreversibility from dictatorship to freedom under a model federal constitution. But despite this remarkable public success, and the economic revival that accompanied it, the experience of war remains current in the imagination of Germans. Indeed, so total was ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ordfront Pocket
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9789173247832ISBN:9173247839
Description: Fine. Paperback, Like New, Swedish text, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases, slight edge wear over all. (Near Fine) North American Orders are shipped by kbooks every business day. International orders are shipped on Tuesdays and Friday's. read more
Binding: Trade paperback.
Publisher: Granta
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780140141085ISBN:0140141081
Description: Very good+ condition: spine uncreased, text clean. Sereny explains her fascination with Albert Speer and how she came to write about him. read more
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