{"product_id":"9780712674478-into-that-darkness","title":"Into That Darkness","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Mercy Killing to Mass Murder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly  four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration)  camps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly  four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration)  camps. Franz Stangl was one of the. Gitta Sereny's investigation of this  man's mind, and of the influences which shaped him, has become a  classic. Stangl commanded Treblinka and was found guilty of  co-responsibility for the slaughter there of at least 900, 000 people.  Sereny, after weeks of talk with him and months of further research,  shows us this man as he saw himself, and 'as he was seen by many others,  including his wife. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo horrify is not Sereny's aim, though  horror is inevitable. She is seeking an answer to the question which  beggars reason: How were human beings turned into instruments of such  overwhelming evil?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGitta Sereny\u003c\/b\u003e 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 worked as a Child Welfare Officer in UNRRA displaced  persons' camps in Germany. In 1949 she married the American \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer  journalistic work was of great variety but focussed particularly on the  Third Reich and troubled children. She wrote mainly for the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She also contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines around the world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer books include: \u003ci\u003eThe Medallion\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel; \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Children\u003c\/i\u003e, on child prostitution; \u003ci\u003eInto That Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e; and a biographical examination of Albert Speer. Gitta Sereny died in June 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30347957633121,"sku":"9780712674478","price":16.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32332006.jpg?v=1737351628","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780712674478-into-that-darkness","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}