12/22/2023 0 Comments Franz stangl and wife![]() ![]() Certainly, throughout, he could not even tell his wife he was involved in the killing: he is just "organising the camp construction." And yet at critical moments, he allows himself to block off from himself what he was doing: he must have changed from talking about the people who enter the gas chambers to "the cargo" at some point. Once in the extermination system (first disabled people, then Jews) Stangl's obsession with efficiency allows him to feel that all he is doing is a job like any other and just doing it without fuss. Sereny is keen to emphasise the role the euthanasia programme for disabled people played as a stepping stone, anaestheticising Stangl and others to the idea of killing as a sensible way to get round "problem people", and adds an angle I for one had never considered before. Gitta Sereny died in June 2012.Īn ordinary family man ends up at the head of Treblinka and co-responsible for over a million dead Jews. 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. Gitta Sereny is of Hungarian-Austrian extraction and is trilingual in English, French and German. She is seeking an answer to the question which beggars reason: How were human beings turned into instruments of such overwhelming evil? Gitta Sereny is of Hungarian-Austrian extraction and is trilingual in English, French and German. To horrify is not Sereny's aim, though horror is inevitable. 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. 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. The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evil Only four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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