Sereny, Gitta

Overview

Works:	81 works in 413 publications in 9 languages and 9,003 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Case studies Trials, litigation, etc Drama Interviews History Biographies
Roles:	Author, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of introduction, Honoree
Classifications:	DD247.S63, 943.086092

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Gitta Sereny

In quest of conscience by Robert David MacDonald( )

Most widely held works by Gitta Sereny

Albert Speer : his battle with truth by Gitta Sereny( Book )

75 editions published between 1995 and 2017 in 9 languages and held by 2,307 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obtained access to many of his papers.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

Cries unheard : why children kill : the story of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny( Book )

20 editions published between 1998 and 2015 in English and held by 1,294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The author reports on "five months of intensive talks" which occurred twenty-seven years after Mary Bell was convicted of murdering two small boys in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.--Jacket

Into that darkness; from mercy killing to mass murder by Gitta Sereny( Book )

47 editions published between 1974 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

The invisible children : child prostitution in America, West Germany, and Great Britain by Gitta Sereny( Book )

23 editions published between 1984 and 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The invisible world of child prostitution in America, England, and West Germany is fully explored here for the first time. Gitta Sereny's profoundly disturbing book is the result of two years of intensive interviews and research during which she met with, spoke with, and got to know child prostitutes here and abroad as well as their parents, their pimps, their lovers, and the teachers, psychologists, and police who are struggling to help. Writing with a strong commitment to the lives of these children, she gives us in detail the stories of ten girls and two boys. All of them are runaways for whom it was (actually or emotionally) impossible to return to home and family--and for whom the only alternative seemed to be to join "the life" of prostitution. Interwoven with the author's narrative and observations are the voices of the children themselves, who speak with feeling and candor about the homes they fled, and about the life they live now on the street. They discuss their pimps. their "tricks," the ways they were "initiated" into prostitution. They express their feelings about sex and about the future they see for themselves. Sereny makes us understand the horrifying reality of what is happening to children like these by the thousands, why it is happening, and why, walking the city streets, they have nevertheless remained invisible.--From publisher description

The healing wound : experiences and reflections on Germany, 1938-2001 by Gitta Sereny( Book )

10 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 752 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In The Healing Wound, Sereny presents a vital historical account of Germany in the 20th century, exploring the guilt which is in many ways the legacy of Nazism. She argues that despite the achievements of Germany since 1945, the awareness of the horrors committed in their name remains in the minds of Germans to this day-an open wound of historical culpability. 32 photos. Few individuals have written about the evil forces of Hitler's Germany with the immediacy & urgency of Gitta Sereny. She first encountered the Nazis in 1934 at age eleven when she witnessed a Nuremberg rally, & in 1940 she was in Paris when the Blitzkrieg overran the Allied armies. In 1942, warned of impending arrest for having hidden British pilots, she fled across the Pyrenees. The Healing Wound combines political statement with the haunting personal memories of one of the twentieth century's most relentless witnesses

Into that darkness : an examination of conscience by Gitta Sereny( Book )

17 editions published between 1974 and 1983 in 3 languages and held by 611 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A portrait of Franz Stangl, Commandant of Treblinka, the largest of the five Nazi extermination camps, based on interviews

The case of Mary Bell; a portrait of a child who murdered by Gitta Sereny( Book )

8 editions published between 1972 and 2013 in English and held by 346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The case of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny( Book )

19 editions published between 1972 and 1995 in 4 languages and held by 229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

I 1968 anklagedes i Newcastle en 11 årig pige for mord på to drenge på 3 og 4 år. I Liverpool dømtes to tiårige drenge for mordet på James Bulger. Bogen prøver at trænge ind i børnenes univers og sætter spørgsmålstegn ved det forsvarlige at dømme dem til fængseslstraf

The German trauma : experiences and reflections, 1938-2001 by Gitta Sereny( Book )

21 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This text gathers together the best of Gitta Sereny's writing on Germany since the 1940s. It amounts to a portrait of the country and its people, and how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectvely and in terms of specific instances

The German trauma : experiences and reflections, 1938-2000 by Gitta Sereny( Book )

10 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Das Ringen mit der Wahrheit : Albert Speer und das deutsche Trauma by Gitta Sereny( Book )

14 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in German and held by 133 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

50 Jahre nach Kriegsende legt die Journalistin ein detailliertes Psychogramm des Architekten und später als Rüstungsminister zweiten Mannes im NS-Staat vor, das zudem Speers Erkenntnis über seine tiefe persönliche Verstrickung in die Naziverbrechen dokumentiert

The German trauma : experiences and reflections, 1938-1999 by Gitta Sereny( Book )

3 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 102 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 : a portrait of a child who murdered : with a new preface and appendix by the author by Gitta Sereny( Book )

5 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 90 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Grida dal silenzio : storia di una bambina by Gitta Sereny( Book )

14 editions published between 1998 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Am Abgrund : Gespräche mit dem Henker : Franz Stangl und die Morde von Treblinka by Gitta Sereny( Book )

10 editions published between 1995 and 1997 in German and Undetermined and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Überarbeitete Neuausgabe des zuerst 1980 (Ullstein; BA 7/80, 248) erschienenen, in mehrere Sprachen übersetzten, weltweit verbreiteten Buches einer englischen Presse-Beobachterin mehrerer NS-Prozesse: In der Verarbeitung von Gesprächen mit Franz Stangl - Kommandant der Vernichtungslager Sobibor und Treblinka, 1970 wegen Mordes an 900000 Menschen zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt -, dessen Angehörigen und 5 seiner wenigen überlebenden Opfer ist die Autorin tiefer in die Hintergründe des Massenmordens eingedrungen als viele historische Untersuchungen (E. Jäckel), außerdem ist das Buch authentisches Zeugnis, vergleichbar den autobiografischen Aufzeichnungen von R. Höss (BA 9/78, 221, zuletzt: E-ID 11/88). Primäres Dokument, deshalb nach wie vor wichtig. (2) (LK/HH: Andrae)

Au fond des ténèbres : de l'euthanasie à l'assassinat de masse, un examen de conscience by Gitta Sereny( Book )

11 editions published between 1975 and 1993 in French and held by 43 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Au fond des ténèbres : un bourreau parle, Franz Stangl, commandant de Treblinka by Gitta Sereny( Book )

4 editions published between 2007 and 2013 in French and English and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Une si jolie petite fille les crimes de Mary Bell : récit by Gitta Sereny( Book )

5 editions published between 2014 and 2016 in French and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Germania : il trauma di una nazione : riflessioni 1938-2001 by Gitta Sereny( Book )

2 editions published in 2002 in Italian and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

El trauma alemán : testimonios cruciales de la ascendencia y la caída del nazismo by Gitta Sereny( Book )

3 editions published in 2005 in Spanish and English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide