Sereny, Gitta

Albert Speer : his battle with truth by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
16 editions published between 1995 and 1997 in English and French and held by 2,294 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 Speer gave Sereny, for her use, a number of unpublished manuscripts, and after his death she obtained access to many of his papers.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

The invisible children : child prostitution in America, West Germany, and Great Britain by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
4 editions published between 1984 and 1985 in English and held by 1,185 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

Into that darkness; from mercy killing to mass murder by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
18 editions published between 1974 and 1995 in English and held by 1,178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cries unheard : why children kill : the story of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
5 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 1,122 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

The case of Mary Bell; a portrait of a child who murdered by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
16 editions published between 1972 and 1995 in English and held by 711 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Into that darkness : an examination of conscience by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
14 editions published between 1974 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 537 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A portrait of Franz Stangl, Commandant of Treblinka, the largest of the five Nazi extermination camps, based on interviews

Cries unheard : the story of Mary Bell by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
7 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The German trauma : experiences and reflections, 1938-2000 by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
5 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The German trauma : experiences and reflections, 1938-2001 by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
6 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
First published by Allen Lane in 1990

Albert Speer : verstrikt in de waarheid by Gitta Sereny ( Book )
3 editions published between 1995 and 1999 in Dutch and held by 49 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Biografie van Albert Speer (1905-1981), architect en minister van Bewapening en Oorlogsproduktie tijdens het Derde Rijk