Book 1, Into That Darkness: Chapter 9 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 2 : Money is a central issue. When pillaging, the Germans and other Nazis are able to get a lot of money from the Jews they kill. Looting of the corpses by workers is commonplace. There are regulations about how such money is handled but they do not entirely work. Some of it is and taken by soldiers. This blend of hideous death and decay with wealth and false images of normalcy comingle. Again, at Treblinka Franz Stangl attempts to get transferred. He is not allowed to disclose exactly what the problem is. Gitta Sereny remarks that this is odd, and a bit unlikely as by now news of the Extermination Camps is rather widespread but even so it is true that the official policy is one of secrecy. Instead of being able to...