Gitta Sereny Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Im Mittelpunkt steht Albert Speer, Architekt Hitlers und später als Rüstungsminister zweitmächtigster Mann im Staat. Im Nürnberger Kriegsverbrecherprozess nahm er die Verantwortung für die Taten des Hitler-Regimes auf sich, konnte aber die Wahrheit, wie stark er sich persönlich in diese Verbrechen verstrickt hatte, noch nicht erkennen. Dies gelang ihm nach langen Gesprächen mit der Autorin, die hier das Psychogramm eines Mannes aufzeichnet, der – ehrgeizig und blauäugig gleichermaßen – einen Pakt mit dem Teufel schloss. Sereny schildert, wie ein junger Mann aus vornehmem Hause, ein brillanter Kopf ohne politische Ambitionen, in den Bann des „Führers“ gerät und nach und nach immer bedeutendere Aufgaben im Reich übernimmt, ohne die Tragweite seines Handelns zu begreifen. Speer sollte sich zeit seines Lebens nicht aus der Konfrontation mit dem Geschehenen entlassen sehen. Indem Gitta Sereny Albert Speers komplexen Charakter sezierte, hat sie zugleich das tiefgründigste Buch über Hitler und das Abgründige des Nazigedankengutes geschrieben.

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

En 1968 à Newcastle, deux petits garçons de 3 et 4 ans sont retrouvés sans vie, étranglés. La ville est sous le choc. Rapidement, les soupçons se tournent vers Mary Bell, une fillette de 11 ans, turbulente et particulièrement intelligente. Comment une enfant a-t-elle pu se laisser aller à cette folie meurtrière ? Perçue comme l'incarnation du mal absolu, Mary Bell est condamnée à la prison à perpétuité. Devenue adulte, elle se prête à une série d'entretiens durant lesquels elle se livre et s'interroge. Est-il possible d'expliquer de tels gestes ? Comment affronter sa propre monstruosité ? La rédemption est-elle possible ?

Gitta Sereny ; Aus Dem Englischen Von Helmut Dierlamm, Klaus Fritz Und Norbert Juraschitz. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [723]-734) And Index.

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;

Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversations - as no other biographer has known a Nazi leader. She interviewed as well the people around him - the celebrated, the notorious and the ordinary. Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obtained access to many of his papers. Out of her probings a huge, and hugely alive, portrait emerges. Sereny takes us through the emotional desert of Speer's childhood and marriage, through his embrace (basically, she demonstrates, for nonideological reasons) of the Nazi Party and his service as Minister of Armaments and Munitions, during which his brutal use of slave labor extended a lost war. She superbly portrays the circles in which Speer functioned: the ambivalent General Staff and the infinitely peculiar and nightmarish upper echelons of Nazism

The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp, is a compelling study of evil. Only four men led Nazi extermination camps, and Stangl was one of them, found guilty of co-responsibility for the deaths of at least 900,000 people. Gitta Sereny’s investigation delves into his psyche and the influences that shaped him. Through extensive conversations with Stangl and thorough research, she presents his self-perception and how he was viewed by others, including his wife. While horror is a natural outcome, Sereny’s aim is to understand how individuals can become instruments of such profound evil. Sereny, of Hungarian-Austrian descent, was trilingual and became a social worker during World War II, caring for war-damaged children in France. After the war, she worked as a Child Welfare Officer in UNRRA displaced persons' camps in Germany. In 1949, she married American photographer Don Honeyman and settled in London, where she raised a family and began her journalism career. Her work, particularly focused on the Third Reich and troubled children, appeared in various prominent publications. Sereny authored several books, including a novel and critical examinations of child exploitation and notable figures from the Nazi regime. She passed away in June 2012.