Gitta Sereny Libri
Gitta Sereny, giornalista, biografa e storica di origine austriaca, divenne rinomata per le sue penetranti esplorazioni sulla natura del male e sul trauma infantile. Le sue stesse prime esperienze con il nazismo nell'Europa centrale dei primi del Novecento modellarono profondamente il suo fascino duraturo per la comprensione degli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana. Attraverso meticolose ricerche e interviste, Sereny si immerse nelle psiche di individui coinvolti in atrocità storiche, da funzionari nazisti a sopravvissuti. Il suo lavoro, caratterizzato da una profonda empatia e da un'incrollabile ricerca della verità, offre agghiaccianti intuizioni su come gli individui possano perpetrare o sopportare atti orribili.
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 Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obtained access to many of his papers.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 German trauma
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
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
The Case Of Mary Bell
- 336pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
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;
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 ?
Der Fall Mary Bell
- 340pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
