Gitta Sereny - Albert Speer (16/20)

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From her experience as a welfare officer for concentration camp survivors, Gitta Sereny (1921-2012) was fascinated by the Holocaust and those who engineered it. She interviewed key figures in the Third Reich, continuing her study of evil in later writings. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]

[@dougbrowne9890]

I have read her book about Speer, and the one about Stangl. Very good reads.

[@ashively1]

Agreed. She had a gift for interviewing and writing about complex individuals.

[@richardmcleod5967]

She very kindly admits that she very much liked Albert Speer and found him to be very honest in his comments.

[@46metube]

Speer admitted in a letter shortly before he died that he knew about the extermination of the Jews. And that he regretted nothing - he would do it all again, had he the chance. He was a liar. He was not 'the good Nazi.'

[@randyfx]

She seems too elitist to like Stangl, but she is able to minimize Stangl’s evil intent.

[@grantsmythe8625]

@@randyfx Elitist? Hmm. Didn't seem so to me.

[@alinaknox5773]

Interesting to hear that she didn’t like Mary Bell.

[@airplanes42]

"I was very aware that he was more intelligent than I. He was a superior man."

[@neverexsystem]

she really likes herself so much...

[@henrigaziel2002]

Nonsense. She’s sure of herself and her work, unlike you obviously.

[@lisawallace1741]

I live in the United States and I can can sort of understand this idea of Austrian provincials when I think about county sheriffs

[@christopherjames9843]

Albert Speer played her like a fiddle.

[@radicalcartoons2766]

That's a childish comment. Her book on him is one of the greatest contributions to our understanding of the 3rd Reich.

[@christopherjames9843]

Maybe you should read some books about Albert Speer and read what those authors feel about the book Gitta wrote. Then get back to me. Her book was universally derided.@@radicalcartoons2766

[@9traktor]

Not very sympathic, this "lady"...

[@joenelson3037]

A study of history shouldn’t be concerned with sympathy. It’s aim should be to absorb as much information as possible. She achieved that.

[@9traktor]

@@lancejohnson127 May be - but, read the book from jewish author Gerard Menuhin, jr....

[@grantsmythe8625]

@@9traktor One David Irving is enough. We don't need two.,

[@9traktor]

@@grantsmythe8625 Guess, there are many more. Still growing stronger...