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Mercy Killing - Paper

Mercy Killing

Sereny was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. Her father was a Hungarian Protestant, Ferdinand Serény, and her mother was a former actress from Hamburg, Margit Herzfeld, of Hungarian and Jewish origin.

When she was thirteen, her train journey to a boarding school in the United Kingdom was delayed in Nuremberg where she attended one of the annual Nuremberg rallies. After writing about the rally for a class assignment she was given Mein Kampf to read by her teacher so she might be able to understand what she saw there. After the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938, she moved to France where she worked with refugee children during the German occupation until she was warned of her imminent ...

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delight of the original family members at the restoration of the children.[2]

She attended the Nuremberg Trials for four days in 1945 as an observer and it was here that she first saw Albert Speer about whom she would later write the book Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth. It was for this book that she was awarded the 1995 James Tait Black Memorial ...

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Added: 3/8/2011 07:21:37 PM
Submitted By: mark87
Category: Government
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 271
Pages: 1

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