Description

Albert Speer küzdelme az igazsággal – Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth / Gitta Sereny (Európa Kiadó, 2021)

ISBN: 9789635043903 / 978-9635043903
Author: Gitta Sereny
Publisher: Európa Kiadó
Publication Year: 2021
Place of Publication: Budapest
Pages: 920
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket (ragasztott kötött védőborítóval)
Language: Hungarian
Dimensions: 152 × 230 × 55 mm
Genre: Historical Biography / World War II / Ethics and Responsibility

Overview

Gitta Sereny’s Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth is an extraordinary exploration of moral conflict and personal responsibility in the shadow of one of history’s darkest eras.

The Hungarian–Austrian-born British journalist and historian devoted years of meticulous research and hundreds of hours of interviews to understand Albert Speer — Hitler’s chief architect and Minister of Armaments, the only high-ranking Nazi to openly admit guilt at the Nuremberg Trials.

Sereny examines how a cultured, educated man from a respectable bourgeois background became entangled in the Nazi machine and how, after the fall of the Third Reich, he wrestled with his conscience for the rest of his life.

This 920-page masterwork is not only the biography of a man but a penetrating moral investigation: Can repentance absolve complicity in evil? Can truth ever be fully told after such darkness?

Hungarian Translation – Áttekintés

Gitta Sereny magyar–osztrák származású brit író és újságíró monumentális munkája Albert Speer életét és lelkiismereti küzdelmeit mutatja be. Speer Hitler közeli bizalmasa, főépítésze és fegyverkezési minisztere volt — egy értelmiségi, aki egy nagypolgári családból származott, és Germánia grandiózus újratervezésével bízták meg.

A nürnbergi per vádlottjai közül ő volt az egyetlen, aki elismerte felelősségét a náci rendszer bűneiért. Sereny éveken át folytatott kutatásai és személyes interjúi nyomán nemcsak Speer alakja, hanem az emberi lelkiismeret és önámítás tragikus története is feltárul.

A mű végig azt a kérdést feszegeti: vajon létezhet-e valódi bűnbánat és igazság egy ilyen mértékű bűn után?

Product Features

Format: Hardcover with protective dust jacket
Page Count: 920 pages
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Biography / Historical Non-Fiction / World War II History
Focus: Moral responsibility, self-deception, and historical truth
Audience: Readers of history, psychology, and post-war ethics

Interesting Facts

About the Author: Gitta Sereny (1921–2012) was an acclaimed British writer and journalist of Hungarian–Austrian descent, renowned for her deep psychological and moral investigations into figures connected with Nazism and totalitarianism.
Research Depth: The book is based on more than 12 years of research and over 60 hours of direct interviews with Speer after his release from Spandau Prison.
Moral Inquiry: Rather than condemning or excusing Speer, Sereny probes the paradox of guilt, conscience, and truth — revealing how even intellectuals can become complicit in moral catastrophe.
Critical Reception: The original English edition (Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth, 1995) received international acclaim for its honesty, depth, and courage in confronting uncomfortable questions about individual responsibility.

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