Her books include: The Medallion, a novel The Invisible Children, on child prostitution Into That Darkness and a biographical examination of Albert Speer. Franz Stangl - Part I: The early days - A policeman in Austria. 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. While in prison, Stangl was interviewed extensively by Gitta Sereny for a study. 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. Franz Paul Stangl (26 March 1908 28 June 1971) was an Austrian-born SS. A suspense-crammed thriller of the Cold War, Pan Books, 1957 The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered, Methuen Publishing, London, 1972 Into That Darkness. At long last a rational treatment of one of the most irrational episodes in the history of humankind has been published. During the Second World War she became a social worker, caring for war-damaged children in France. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. 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. Into that Darkness, by Gitta Sereny IN 1970, the Diisseldorf court sentenced Franz Stangl to life imprisonment for his role as com- mandant by Dorothy Rabinowitz Into that Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder. 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.
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