Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience

by Gitta Sereny

Overview

Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the five Nazi extermination camps), this book bares the soul of a man who continually found ways to rationalize his role in Hitler's final solution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780394710358
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/12/1983
Edition description:	1st Vintage Books ed
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	479,088
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.88(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Gitta Sereny was one of Europe's foremost journalists with a special interest and expertise in the Third Reich. She has written extensively for London's Daily Telegraph magazine, Sunday Times, and The independent, as well as for Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur. In America, she has written for  The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and  Vanity Fair. Her books include Into Darkness: An Examination of Conscience, The Invisible Children, and Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth. She had two children and two grandchildren and lived with her husband, the photographer Don Honeyman, in London. She died June 14, 2012.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	9
	Preface	13
	The People Who Speak	16
Part I21
Part II93
Part III145
Part IV253
Part V289
Part VI337
	Epilogue	367
	List of Principal Works Consulted	369
	Index	373
	Illustrations
	Plans
	Sobibor Extermination Camp	94
	Treblinka Extermination Camp	146