Cries Unheard
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Gitta Sereny pieces together the fractured life of Mary Bell, convicted of manslaughter when she was only eleven years old.
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March 13, 1921 – June 14, 2012
Gitta Sereny, an Austrian-born journalist, biographer, and historian, became renowned for her penetrating explorations into the nature of evil and childhood trauma. Her own early experiences with Nazism in early 20th-century Central Europe profoundly shaped her lifelong fascination with understanding the darker aspects of human nature. Through meticulous research and interviews, Sereny delved into the psyches of individuals caught in historical atrocities, from Nazi functionaries to survivors. Her work, marked by deep empathy and an unflinching pursuit of truth, offers chilling insights into how individuals can perpetrate or endure horrific acts.
- 2014
- 2001
The healing wound
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Looks at the effects of Nazism and the Holocaust on present-day Germany and its people.
- 2000
The German trauma
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Machine generated contents note: I Beginnings I -- 2 My Friend, a Heroine of France I 5 -- 3 Stolen Children z5 -- 4 Generation without a Past 53 -- 5 Colloquy with a Conscience 87 -- 6 Men Who Whitewash Hitler 135 -- 7 The Hitler Wave 147 -- 8 Fakes and Hoaxes: The Hitler Diaries 162 -- 9 The Great Globocnik Hunt 194 -- 10 Private Lives 216 -- 11 The Three Sins of Syberberg 220 -- 12 'The Truth Is, I Loved Hitler' 227 -- 13 Leni 234 -- 14 Kurt Waldheim's Mental Block 247 -- 15 The Man Who Said 'No' 262 -- 16 Albert Speer 266 -- 17 Children of the Reich 286 -- 18 The Case of John Demjanjuk 309 -- 19 The Right to Say 'No' 358 -- 20 Final Reflections: July 2000 36
- 1995
The Case Of Mary Bell
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys;
- 1995
Albert Speer
- 784 pages
- 28 hours of reading
A biography of Albert Speer, an important figure of the Nazi High Command. An architect and an intellectual, he was seen to be a humane man, but, as Minister for Armaments, how could he not have known about the concentration camps? This book examines such moral issues about Speer and the Nazis.
- 1983
Based on seventy hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the Nazi extermination camps), Sereny's book bares the soul of a man who continually found ways to rationalize his role in Hitler's final solution.
- 1974
Into that Darkness
From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder
Franz Stangl was a Nazi criminal, a superintendent of the Euthanasia Institute at Schloss Hartheim in 1940-42, and later the Commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka death camps. He was arrested in Brazil in 1967, and extradited to West Germany, where he was tried and sentenced to life in prison. This book is based on a series of interviews which Sereny conducted with Stangl in the Düsseldorf Remand prison in 1971, as well as interviews with his wife, Theresa, living in Brazil; Stangl's former co-workers in the Euthanasia Program and in the Nazi death camps (e.g. Franz Suchomel); survivors of Sobibór and Treblinka (e.g. Stanislaw Szmajzner, Joseph Siedlecki, and Richard Glazar); external witnesses of events connected with Sobibór and Treblinka (e.g. Franciszek Żabecki); people connected with the escape network provided by the Catholic Church in Rome after the war; and some others. With historical insight, relates the story of Stangl's murderous activities and his escape from Europe with a Red Cross pass provided by the Catholic Church. Inter alia, reflects on Jewish resistance in Treblinka, as well as on the attitude of the Catholic Church which, during the war, almost condoned Nazi crimes and after the war helped Nazi criminals flee from just punishment. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
