1. Holocaust
... . Stangl, unlike Eichmann, admits to feeling guilt within the first two interviews, stating "I should have killed myself in 1938 ... That's when it started for me. I must acknowledge my guilt" (Sereny 39). It is notably ironic, however, that, as Sereny puts it "This, on the second day of our talks, was the only time Stangl acknowledged guilt in a direct way until almost ... the end" (Sereny 39). Through the course of his interviews, Stangl explains his swift rise in rank and his central role in the extermination of almost one million people with a self-preservationist mentality. Accordin...
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