- Taschenbuch: 400 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage; Auflage: Vintage Books. (12. Januar 1983)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0394710355
- ISBN-13: 978-0394710358
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,1 x 2 x 20,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (8 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 54.768 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the extermination camps), this book bares the soul of a man who continually found ways to rationalize his role in Hitler's final soulution.
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Drawing upon her interviews with Franz Stangl, his family, and people influenced by him, the author defines his role as the head of a Nazi extermination camp.
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I FIRST met Franz Stangl on the morning of Friday, April 2, 1971, in a little room which was ordinarily used as a waiting and rest room for lawyers visiting the Dusseldorf remand prison. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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I FIRST met Franz Stangl on the morning of Friday, April 2, 1971, in a little room which was ordinarily used as a waiting and rest room for lawyers visiting the Dusseldorf remand prison. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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The Holocaust is too evil, monstrous, enormous to attempt to comment upon with any meaning -- expecially by anyone but a Survivor -- either in direct relation to itself, or in terms of critiquing a book about it in 1,000 or 1,000,000 words. Since viewing as a child, some 50 years ago, the documentary, "The Twisted Cross," I have read score upon score of books about it, dozens of them twice. I have lived and worked in Germany, spoken in German with men who, in their cups, "admitted" or claimed to have been former camp guards. I have visited the preserved remains of Dachau, the now-empty fields where other death camps once stood, and finally the great Jewish graveyard of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Like many others, I cannot comprehend or come to terms with the Holocaust, except to describe it as the greatest crime, the greatest evil, human beings have ever committed in our long and bloody history, most especially because it was the industrialized attempt by one of the world's most "advanced" and powerful nations at the time - Nazi Germany - to make an entire people, the Jews - the unwanted leaven of civilization - extinct. But these are really just words, as no language can begin to address the torments of so many millions of innocents by the Nazis, every second after second, hour after hour, millions of hours of every day for all the Third Reich's years. After finishing reading Sereny's book (for the second time), with all its interviews with Sobibor-Treblinka Commandant Franz Stangl and the scores of others she talks with, one question, posed early on, haunts me. It has since I first read the book some 20 years ago. It is asked by an unidentified guard, 24, in the Dusseldorf prison where Sereny interviewed Stangl. That guard, knowing Sereny was going to question him, declares: "Perhaps now at long last one of them is going to have the courage to explain to my generation how any human being with mind and heart and brain could ... not even 'do' what was done ... but even see it being done, and consent to remain alive." Neither Stangl nor Sereny nor anyone in her book answers this question. The reader is left with his own lifetime to puzzle out some sort of answer, alone.
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I have often wondered how the Holocaust could have taken place. How could millions of people have been killed on such a huge scale? In her book, Gitta Sereny helps to find some of the answers to that question. In 1971, she had the unique opportunity to interview Franz Stangl, one of the commanders of the Nazi extermination camps in Poland. The interviews took place over several weeks, and lasted 70 hours. The interviews form the basis of the book, and a deeper understanding of Franz Stangl and the Holocaust. From the book, we learn that evil does not appear all at once; but that it grows over a period of time; like a journey into an ever deepening darkness. In an almost step by step process, Franz Stangl was drawn deeper and deeper into the darkness, until he could become the commander of a place where 900,000 people were murdered. One of the most terrifying realizations from the book, is the thought of how easy it can be to descend into that darkness. It is something that could happen to so many of us, as we keep going on with our lives; even though we are doing things that we know in our hearts are wrong. By the end of the book, many illusions about the Holocaust have been stripped away, and Franz Stangl finally comes face to face with himself and his own personal responsibility. The moments that are described then, are some of the most haunting and memorable that I have ever read. The most important message from the book, is that we must take responsibility for our own actions; and for each other. This is one of the best books ever written about the Holocaust, and it is highly recommended.
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This book's title and cover lead one to believe that the reader will read stories of heroic people sheltering Jews in their homes, or anecdotes from survivors of Auschwitz. Indeed we do hear from survivors of death-camps, but only to corroborate the central piece of the book: the author's talk with Franz Stangl. This book is a fresh look at the Holocaust - through the eyes of the persecutors. This approach is captivating throughout, and adding to the intrigue is the depth to which the author and Stangl converse. Here is a man who is taking full advantage of the opportunity to bare his soul and try to lift the weight of 900,000 souls off his shoulders. He is trying to finally come to grips with the horrors that went on under his control. At times we see a man as helpless as the prisoners he controlled. Other times, Stangl is unapologetic. In the course of the talks, he shows readers what Treblinka was like for those forced to live through it. This new look at the Holocaust is fascinating throughout. No account of anything, especially such a vast tragedy as the Nazi's Final Solution, ought to be complete without hearing about life on both sides of the trenches.
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You will arrive at this book after Trevor-Roper, Speer, Shirer, Bullock, Churchill, Gilbert, Irving, Ambrose and all the rest; but it is not that type of history. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Interesting study of Stangl, but Vatican info is erroneous
Sereny's study of Stangl is fascinating reading, but her chapter that tries to implicate the Vatican is misleading. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. März 1999 veröffentlicht
The material about Vatican complacency is a book in itself.
The insight into Stangl's mind revealed by the interviews may be personally frightening to many readers. An expert approach to an extremely difficult task. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. März 1999 veröffentlicht
A unforgetable, heart-stopping voyage.
An extraordinary work. Not simply an examination of a Nazi death-camp, nor a mere analysis of those who operated them, but a heart-stopping journey into the darkest of humanity's... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. April 1998 von Howie Muir
A well-researched and -written classic of Holocaust studies
Often, the most frightening--and courageous--action we can take is to confront the truth about ourselves. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. März 1998 veröffentlicht
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