Cover of Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience

Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience

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.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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