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A 5 page essay that looks at Gitta Sereny's text Into That Darkness, From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1974), which is an account of the life and choices of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Nazi death camps, Sobibor and Treblinka. Told largely in Stangl's own words, this is a highly intimate portrait of a mass murderer. The writer discusses the choices that Stangl made which led him down this path. No additional sources cited.
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with Stangl. She told him that she abhorred what he had done, but that she would tell his story honestly and as much without prejudice or bias as is humanly
possible. The resulting book, Into That Darkness, From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1974), is largely in Stangls own words, with Sereny making comments such as the fact that his
German would become more formal at times or that there were times when he offered more than one version of events. Therefore, this is a highly intimate portrait of a
mass murderer. Not surprisingly, there are numerous features about his story that are deeply disturbing; however, perhaps the most disturbing feature of this account is that Stangl does not
come across as a monster. An individual likes to think that if he or she were faced with a moral crisis that involved the worst kind of evil imaginable and
peril to your own life, that the right decision would be easy, but Stangls story makes the reader question such a conclusion. Frau Stangl told Sereny that on the day
her husband was sentenced by "other Germans who sat in judgement over him," she wondered what they would have done in his place (360). As if in answer to her
question, one of the jurors came up to her later and told her, "I dont want you to think it was unanimous--it wasnt" (Sereny 360). Clearly, similar thoughts had occurred
to this man. This brings up the question of why a seemingly "ordinary" person such as Stangl would consent to play such an intrinsic role in mass murder. This is
what Sereny tried to discern. She began with Stangls childhood. Stangl was born in Altmunster, a small town in Austria, on March 26, 1908. He had one sister, and
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