Interview with the Kommandant

Authors

  • Carol Dine Massachusetts College of Art and Design Author

Keywords:

Holocaust, Franz Stangl, Gitta Sereny, Treblinka, guilt, documentary fiction

Abstract

In this imagined interview, inspired by Gitta Sereny’s Into That Darkness, Sereny interviews Franz Stangl, former commandant of Treblinka, in a Düsseldorf prison in 1971 and presses him to acknowledge his guilt.

Author Biography

  • Carol Dine, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

    Carol Dine is the author of four books of poetry and a memoir, “Places in the Bone,” soon available on Kindle from Lincoln Square Books. She is a recipient of the Sword of Hope Award from the American Cancer Society and the Editor’s Choice Award from Ekphrasis/Frith Press, as well as grants from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the St. Botolph Club Foundation and the Bitter Oleander Press. Her work in this issue is from her manuscript, “Blood Moon.” Carol has been a resident at the Mac-Dowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Millay Colony. She teaches memoir at Massachusetts College of Art & Design.

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Published

2017-10-26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Dine, Carol. “Interview With the Kommandant”. The Mailer Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Oct. 2017, pp. 303–307, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/637.

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