Gitta Sereny - The banality of evil

 

To listen to more of Gitta Sereny’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHXvcNDL93Q&list=PLVV0r6CmEsFwMmATXf1_wlyHtF9moo_5q From her earliest experiences as a welfare officer looking after concentration camp survivors, Gitta Sereny (1921-2012) was fascinated by the Holocaust and the nature of those who had engineered this systematic genocide. She went on to write "Into That Darkness", a work based on her conversations with Franz Stangl, the commandant of Treblinka death camp, and later wrote a critically-acclaimed biography of Hitler's main architect and close friend, Albert Speer.