Dived into The German Trauma by Gitta Sereny. It is several articles and essaylike pieces about various germanrelated subjects. One was about her growing up in austria before the war and watching the german marsch in. Another about her time in france before and after the german occupation until she had to escape. There is one about people trying to defend Hitler and one about his diaries and how they were shown to be fake. One about a long series of interviews with Fritz Stangl, the commander of Treblinka who ordered 1,2 millions to death. She is interested not so much in casting blame but in understanding how people who, like Stangl, are seemingly nice people can go on knowing that they are responsible for a million peoples death even if they did not kill anyone by their own hands. What kind of walls do they build to live on knowing thise things. For a few of the murderers were moral men and still did do it. There were of course the monsters too, that lacked any kind of morality, but they do not really present an interesting question. She has a similar piece where she talks with Albert Speer. She said about him that he always tried to be honest but often failed in being so. He, like Stangl, had built these inner walls that kept them, in their view, on the right side morally. There is also a piece about german children and the generation gap between parents and children. How the childrens questions about the past often are met with silence from the parents that lived and sometimes did things in Hitlers Germany. The Attitude best not to talk about it is the past and it is gone were common but has changed now.. She wrote the pieces between middle 60-ties and the last year 2000. There is also one on Leni Riefenstahl. An interesting book. She was interested in understanding evil and its outputs. She wrote two good books on Mary Bell (12 year old girl who murdered a 6 year old boy). Cries Unheard. Great book where she talks not only with a grown up Mary Bell but with prisonguards old friends and so on.