
Nine days later, The Guardian reported that Sereny had paid Mary Bell 50,000 from her advance to collaborate on the book. The uproar began last April, shortly before the book's publication, when The Observer ran an article revealing the project. This is her first article for the magazine. Isabel Hilton is a writer and documentary filmmaker who lives in London. The book is soon to be published in the United States, and Sereny is anxious to avoid The story of Mary Bell, who as a 10-year-old in 1968 killed one boy, age 4, and two months later another one, age 3, for no apparent reason. We have been acquainted for many years, but now she seems wary, bruised by what she regards as an excess of the wrong kind of attention during the row that surrounded the publication in England last year of her latest book, "Cries Unheard," The pure notes of Cecilia Bartoli, playing on the stereo, float discreetly in the background, and the air is scented with the coffee that Gitta's husband, Don Honeyman, has just placed on It is a comfortable room in the corner of the building, and the "Well," she says, "do your worst." We are sitting in the living room of her apartment on an anonymous block in Kensington, in West London. She is dressed in slacks and a simple polo-necked sweater, her hair freshly washed. Itta Sereny is sitting deep in an armchair. But how else, she asks, can you extract the darkest secrets of Nazi exterminators and child murderers? By ISABEL HILTON After acceptance and a year’s training at the police school in Linz, he served his probation, first in the Traffic Division and then with the Riot Squad.The writer Gitta Sereny has been criticized for getting too close to her subjects, even befriending them. Five years later, in 1931, he realised his job held no further prospects for him, and he applied to join the Federal Austrian Police. When Franz was eight years old, in 1916, his father died of malnutrition, after which his mother remarried to a widower a year later, thus Franz gained two step- brothers.Īfter leaving school aged 15, he became an apprentice in the weaving trade, and three years later qualified as a master weaver, the youngest in Austria. His father was already advanced in years, whereas his mother was still a young woman, they had one other child, a daughter ten years older than Franz. Stangl and Franz outside the German Quarter in Treblinkaįranz Paul Stangl was born in Altmunster, a market town on the western shore of the Traunsee, near Gmunden, in Upper Austria, on 26 March 1908. Recommended publications Recommended publications.Guest Article - Resistance in Denmark Resistance in Denmark.
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