“There Was the Tailor from Bohemia” - The nazi “euthanasia” programme and germans from český krumlov
“There Was the Tailor from Bohemia” - The nazi “euthanasia” programme and germans from český krumlov

Author(s): Pavel Zeman
Subject(s): Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Gitta Sereny; interview; Franz Paul Stangl; "euthanasia"; Nazis; annihilation camps; Treblinka; Sobibor; Poland;
Summary/Abstract: English journalist Gitta Sereny’s book of interviews with Franz Paul Stangl, a participant in the Nazi “euthanasia” programme and the commander of the annihilation camps in Treblinka and Sobibór in occupied Poland, Into that Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder, was published in the UK and the USA in 1974. The extensive tome brought a direct testimony from one of the prominent perpetrators of Nazi crimes while touching on the involvement of Germans from Bohemia in the Third Reich’s annihilation programmes.

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