Rudolf Höss - Commandant of Auschwitz Documentary
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Nigel Mirages hero
Ah shut up
Höss s Mother should have done Humanity a favour and drowned him at birth.
Hitler was left wing just like his homosexual friend Ernst Rohm. The Nuremburg Laws were written by the Left Wing Liberal Arts Academics which was the beginning of the Holocaust.. The Right Wing was Franz Van Pappen. Like left wing lunatics of today, they were extreme socialists, art school dropouts, they hated the rich, capitalism, Christianity and Judaism while befriending Mooslims.
At Nuremburg, the right wing element was acquitted. The Left Wing element was sentenced to death.
Get your facts straight.
There’s a 2024 nominated film about his family “The Zone of Interest”.
Subtle portrait of evil similar to Haneke’s White Ribbon.
who’s here after “Zone of Interest”?
What a film. I hope it wins Oscars.
Wonderful film.
Wonderful film. Gave me chills.
Shot beautifully. Fly-on-the-wall story telling made it very impactfull. Still trying to understand who the girl was that was leaving apples around. Jonathan Glazer has made another masterpiece.
Such a distributing movie. Made to watch once and never watch again.
I have watched The Zone of Interest so this video brought it all together. I have visited Auschwitz. I have read Levi and Weisel and I have felt the agony. Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn ... God forgive us all.
Tall order for God
And now it is happening again in Gaza
Tell that to Candace Owens who has become an anti Semite. Brainwashed by her husband and his family who subscribe to a sect of Christianity who demonize Jews. She used to be a Protestant. Shame on her.
So?Arabs hate the usa arabs cheered on 911
Palestine hid Osama Bin Laden for years Palestine hates the usa!@sonyamarx6133
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
-Primo Levi
This is an extraordinarily well done documentary of the “Death Dealer” of Auschwitz. What drives my interest in the horrors of the Holocaust is a need to understand how ordinary men could become killers. I’ve accepted that I’ll probably never fully understand it, but I have a huge appreciation for documentaries like this that offer valuable insights into the perpetrators.
The ordinary men and women who worked to run the trains, provided all clerical work, counting and listing the Jewish People in the huge business of collecting and organising papers and transport for millions of those declared enemies of the Nazi's were JUST AS GUILTY AS THE NAZI LEADERS. I hope they lived in guilty and shame for the rest of their lives. As for the German people who moved into and claimed the homes and belongings of the displaced Jewish People must have been vile. Especially when they refused to return the homes and property to the poor souls who actually survived and went "home" Evil, evil b****"*s
This story is well done......but do not think since it's 2000+ these POS are any better.
Look at Biden,look at Obama,look way back to Clinton....these people ruined all of America.
Look at the Commie Russia,they was ruined in the 80's,now they are gaining a lil...
Thank the garbage who's in office.
Lefties still exist sadly!
@John the evil of the Japanese knew no bounds. Taking their own Japanese women with them to supply soldiers with sex. To do that to one's own people is pure evil. Japan has now, got a dire situation, it is seriously underpopulated and their very existence as a 'people' is threatened. One can't help wondering........
@John you are quite obviously a bit of a 'ranter' with a particular point in mind. I won't be steered into any "rant" go throw coal at yourself boyo 😵💫
A few years ago a group of kids from Bandera County,Texas went to visit Bandera's sister city in Poland. The itinerary also included a bit to Auschwitz. I talked to the father of one boy going on the trip. "The visit to this camp may overwhelm your son. Is he prepared to go to such an evil place?". We talked to the boy about the level of atrocities that happened there. When he arrived he realized we weren't joking. He felt it on him like a wet coat. He prayed for those who died and strength to get through the pain the place still possessed. I visited Dachau in 1965. It still had that smell 20 years after it stopped.Dont let things like this happen again. You might be the next guest.
It can easily happen again, anywhere, any time. There are miniature version going on right now, you've got the Saudis attempting to wipe out the Yemen, you have Israel trying to destroy Palestine, and Putin with his idiocy in Ukraine. Also, China is harassing, torturing and killing off the Uyghur.
The US is also acting extremely crazy lately, with a large portion of their far right hate groups endorsing the world's filthy fascist leaders and now speaking of secession. They've already attempted a coup and if the architects of January 6 aren't dealt with, it will happen again. Only it might not fail the second time.
A wystarczy tylko kochać bliźnich przykazanie Boże mówi ,,miłuj bliźniego swego jak siebie samego,,Wtedy nie byłoby wojen , cierpień i zła.
Ah shut up
It still has that smell
Bandera was another psycho Nazi, only he was from Ukraine and now there national hero. How ironic.
To the authors of this well delivered documentary. My Uncle Herbert Ogden was an officer in the British Army and a Tank Commander. Herbert “Bert” went across at Normandy, fought his way through France as part of the “Pathfinders” to identify German artillery etc for the advancing allied forces. He will not talk about this but he open the gates of Bergen Belsen concentration camp and set free the prisoners. Of all the people I have got to know in life, My Uncle Bert is my real hero. He was kind, loving and a force to be reckoned with if you messed with his daughters. Above all he was a very good man. RIP Uncle Bert and all those who with you set free the people who were left after this awful, dreadful stain on humanity.
So did literally everyone else’s uncle and grandfather on RUclips must of been a shitload of soldiers opening one gate
Сердечное спасибо вашему дяде за помощь СССР в победе над нацизмом
@@spannaspinna You're a sad, angry, depressed person.
@@МаринаВнукова-ю7з f your ussr lmao
Please accept the respects and regards of an old American cavalry corporal and former tank crewman on your grandda's service.
I patrolled the Inter German border in 80's, and was lucky enough to do a month of cross training with the 14th/20th 'Hussies' [as they called themselves]. Good mates and a very good time for me.
As for my experience with the KZs, my command required every single trooper to visit Dachau. I talk about that in my main comment, but yeah, 'sobering' isn't even the word for it.
Our guide in Auschwitz said he moved his family from Germany to live with him right by the camp and his wife described it as "paradise on Earth". Unbelievable.
Germany is no fun to live. Any place is better.
Mein Gott!
His wife was a sick freak herself. She loved bring prisoners over to literally be her slaves. He actually caught her having sex with one. She said he had come over to "fry some fish" for her.
@@sassycat6487where did u here that crap?
@@sassycat6487 hahahaahah no.
I always used to wonder where they found such despicable chaps to carry out such work but the last two years have answered that question.
Indeed
Watching the Canadian Leadership grant themselves complete power to smash a protest they don't like, allowing their enforcers to remove their identity tags, and seeing police and soldiers shut down stores and arrest people who might have helped the protestors is very scary.
Also, accusing the protestors of being violent and racist when they're clearly not is just unbelievable.
Who would've thought Trudeau would flip this way? I guess we shouldn't be surprised - these same people have been acting as 'thought police' for a very long time.
@@lanestevens2755 😆👍
@@lanestevens2755 why do you say that?
@@normairizarryni their intolerance is comparable. They’d be happy to put conservatives in camps or to remove conservatives entirely.
Wars are great for Psychopaths. It gives them a chance to indulge their pathology without the constraints put upon them by society. I think that describes Höss best.
To paraphrase Napoleon, arguably also with sociopathic tendencies: "Histoty is written by winners."
How so many psychopaths converged to form one party is pretty astounding
@@alexandermiles2890 This, and the stupid goy believes every lie he’s told.
I would say that, politics is great for psychopaths not just wars.
yes cause you went through what he did and now he dead lets make up stuff about him
his grandson Rainer is a righteous man who works against his grandfather's evil & helps the Jewish community
Also Göring‘s granddaughter is ashamed of her gramdfather‘s deeds and works to prevent any radical ideology.
Another is Katrin Himmler, Heinrich's great-niece, who is married a Jew from Israel. Very nice lady, from what I can see.
Höss has always seemed to fly under the radar, most likely because he had no apparent charisma or traits that set him apart; he’s really quite an uninteresting appearing person, which is ultimately what makes him fascinating. He epitomizes what I like to call, “white glove “ killers, as he didn’t participate with his own hands, but was an excellent tactician of death. More so than Eichmann, he truly represents Arendt’s”banality of evil.” Really, this guy is so dull it’s hard to believe he had a pulse, and yet…
Amazing documentary, thank you for your work.
Well satan himself has got hoess trapped in hell
Just found his perfect niche in life
This is such a fantastic documentary. Hats off to the team behind this channel.
@59:50 - Hannah Arendt’s words, “The banality of evil” are frightfully incisive. Horror and incomprehensible cruelty becomes as normal as getting up in the morning. Thank you for this well-written documentary. 💛🙏🏼
@streptor1 In actual fact rudolf hoess over saw the death of millions of innocent people. Justice served thank goodness hoess is in hell and rightfully so.
no they knew what they did was evil but they enjoyed it 😖
@@hinaynihorvath3926 I agree. In fact, I had the opportunity to ask a holocaust survivor that very question: Did the SS camp goons take pleasure in their evil? The reply: “Oh yes, they _enjoyed_ it!”
@@hinaynihorvath3926Some did. Some were functionaries who didn't think about it. This is well-documented.
The idea that the bureaucracy behind the Holocaust was completely full of pathological sadists is a dangerous one, in that it ignores how the hearts of "normal" people can be corrupted, and thus makes it more likely that genocides like the Holocaust will happen again.
Frighteningly, Hoss was so banal and simple, the concept that such an individual could be directly responsible for the murder of over one million people is a testament to how vile our species is. Having studied history for decades, I cannot put words to how vile one human can be. It speaks to all of us.
What I find fascinating about Höss is that unlike to for example Amon Göth (who was also in charge of a KZ), he was not a sadist. He didn't enjoy the killing, he didn't embrace it. If anything, he was proud about the efficiency. For him the killing was just a necessity, a job that needed to be done. And that's maybe even more scary than if he was simply a sadist. It shows that it didn't take an evil mastermind to commit such atrocities. He was not a special person. In another universe maybe Höss would have become the manager of a company, or maybe a simple worker. But in this one he became responsible for the killing of over a million people.
Achmedinmyjab is a haulicaust denier
According to himself, two millions.
I find nothing fascinating about a mass murderer. Shame on you.
@@inthedarkwoods2022
You are the center of the universe? No. Shame on you. You remind me of the narcissism that gave birth to Hitler's regime.
@@inthedarkwoods2022Liar. You do. Just like the rest of us. Thats why you're here.
Shame on you.
I often forget about all the children sent to these camps too. Seeing the pictures of them holding hands with their siblings while walking through the barbed wire pathways is chilling
You are very accurate when you say that Rudolph Hoss is, perhaps, the personification of what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil", Eichmann is not. Eichmann was a dangerous fanatic, well aware of what he was doing and was proud of his murderous "achievements".
It was only at the end of written his autobiography that Rudolph Hoss become aware of the moral implications of what he did, and it began to affect him consciously (nearly two years after the war ended). The two final letters to his wife and his children reveal the heavy burden of guilt that he was experiencing.
That was just his catholic upringing.
The confessions are a rite that guarantees paradise.
@@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 I'd say he may end up being surprised about the guarantee.
@@molivson He won't be able to notice by the time reality dissolves his delusions i guess.
That's why this video is so well done they capture the Minor Details I'm a stickler for that
@@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 But there's Purgatory to be gone through first, and that can be a bitch.
As a German, I have to give you credit for this. One hour of solid information, presented in top-notch quality and tons of respect to the victims. 💚
I used to be friendly with his grandson, Rainer, who found out what his granddad did when he was a kid, and immediately disowned his entire family other than his mother. Today he stands openly and publicly against everything his grandfather and the Nazis did. Rainer carries a lot of stress and guilt about what Rudolf did.
Can relate.
Of course the feelings are understandable, but as far as I'm concerned guilt should be passed down only through actions and belief, not inherited like blood. I'm a Jew and obviously can only speak for one, but imo he or any other German today that stands in the obvious opposition to what happened in their Grandparents generation has nothing to feel personal guilt over. Part of the ideas that allowed for the Holocaust to happen was the de individualization and subsequent group identification of both others and self. Therefore, it's individualism which fights and stands to protect against such other catastrophes happening in the future. It's deep feelings of collective shame, ironically, that played a part in the leading up to the second world war, further the identification with group over individual was the catalyst and mechanism that allowed for the Holocaust to happen in the first place.
Rainer should not take on the guilt of his grandfather.
Guilt is not transferable. Rainer is not responsible for his grandfather's evil. I 🙏🏾 that Rainer finds peace. ✝️🛐
So you disowned him but not his mother? Like it was his fault his father was a tyrant why not right off the mother that makes absolutely zero sense
I like how these Documentaries produced by The People Profiles give an unrivalled degree of research and detail.
I would really disagree with that.
An excellent and sober presentation of a monster. The extent of his involvement in the Holocaust is shown in an accurate and unbiased manner. This channel is a jewel that shines brightly in this site. Congratulations!!
@streptor1 ...WHAT'S YOUR POINT?!
@streptor1 ...THERE'S NO HOPE FOR SOME PEOPLE- EVEN GOD HAS HIS LIMITS- THAT'S WHY HE CREATED HELL!!!
@streptor1 ...WW2 WAS BEFORE MY TIME- WERE YOU AROUND THEN? DID YOU SURVIVE AUSCHWITZ?!!
@streptor1 At least you're not one those crazy Holocaust conspiracy theorists who say Ausschwitz was just a labour camp.
Search for "Rudolf Hoess's Noose" music video and documentary by Forest Zero. They tell the story from different angle.
Thoroughly researched and detailed, with a precision that is sorely lacking in other videos on this topic. Well done!
Brilliantly done
You need to watch a new music video and mini documentary about RH. Search for "Forest Zero - Rudolf Hoess's Noose"
many other things the Hoss family did at that death camp that they did not tell
There was scene from the miniseries Nuremberg (2001) in which Rudolf Hoss basically says when describing the atrocities at Auschwitz that the goal of the camps was to exterminate people, not unnecessarily torture them and any misconduct by the guards was punished. Oh boy.
Given the chance, there will always be people who abused their power
Of coarse the senior Nazis punished the camp guards for theft.
They wanted all the loot themselves.
Unfortunately for the world, Hoss's psycho mentality will always prevail amongst mankind.
@@ind347 no it wasn't they were free to abuse the prisoners at will
@@h.p.lovecraftscat3613 You realize things can be translated, right?
I wonder how Hoss defined "unnecessary torture"?
Elie Wiesel's "Night" is a book that should be read by every person, not just students. It is a chilling account that encapsulates in a very few pages what happened. And Gen. Eisenhower was right when he said that 20, 30, 40 years from this time there would be people who would come along and say it did not happen. He wanted as many people to be able to say it did, because they saw the results with their own eyes. A well-done documentary. I have seen the one on Himmler, and I'm going to check out the others.
I read Night in high school. I purchased the book as an adult. It hits differently now that I have a family and children.
The Holocaust: We've heard about it since our youth in high school. We've seen the pictures and we've read personal accounts. We're read about the horrific train rides to the camps and the bestial selection process. Every student should be taught to and every adult should remember to choose a particular day of the year to remember, to look at the pictures again and watch some of the videos again and to observe silence. The Holocaust isn't just about the Jewish people. It's about all people everywhere.
@I don't think so No so but you get to choose as you think, and I get to choose as I think.
My husband is a history teacher in a secondary school. This is on the syllabus and every year he takes a bunch of year 10s to visit Auschwitz. The students always react with sadness and empathy as I think the realisation of what occured hits them once they are at the place . They are also taught that although the vast majority of inmates were Jewish, there were also, political prisoners, homosexuals , mentally disabled and Roma and gypsy people
RIP
@@MELANIE2571 Jehovah's Witnesses were also in the camps because their religion demands they be Conscientious Objectors and the Nazis would not tolerate that.
Thank you for your comment. Your husband is really helping future adults be fully informed about this part of world history. Good work. Good teacher.
@@MELANIE2571 also the Nazi’s killed their own mentally/physically disabled ppl
@@MELANIE2571and keep in mind that the homosexuals were returned to prison after liberation to complete their sentences.
Since this naturally has to focus heavily on Auschwitz I find it nice that Treblinka and Belzec were mentioned at the end to provide more context to the tragedy of the Holocaust on a whole -- Auschwitz and Hoss, as horrible as they were, being still just a piece of the most evil system humanity has ever created.
I, too, appreciate that Treblinka & Belzec were mentioned. It shames me to admit that I was in my thirties before I learned of those two facilities; all I knew centered on Auschwitz. I promptly set out educating myself & making certain my children aren't ignorant.
Careful to avoid minimizing the Shoah, I also told my children about the other "undesirables" that were persecuted, hunted, imprisoned, tortured, & murdered. e.g. Romany, biracial, handicapped, mentally ill, cognitively impaired, & homosexuals.
All the victims are remembered & honored in my family now.
You made a valid point in saying that other people were mistreated by the Nazis.
The Nazis were and still are very dangerous. In the USA they have a very strong presence, Skin Head's ,KKK and any kind of white supremist groups we have.
British empire was evil
Hard to imagine that this took place during my life time... War shows the worst and best of People... Give a Person Power and he will show his true colours... Excellent Video... Thank You.
@roseogra
Including ONALD TRUMP. he is as power hungry as hitler
What a cold hearted man. I saw the spot of his execution, which was a very short distance from the place of mass murder. Chilling is perhaps the only word I could think of to describe this beast.
Thank you for this well presented and researched presentation.
Hoss was raised "Catholic" aka Cana'anite ... what's the problem!
The site of his execution was behind the crematorium and NOT where the gallows are sited today
The place where he was executed is in Auschwitz I, the Stammlager. While many murders took place there, the main killing center was Auschwitz II, Birkenau.
Robotic, is my thought. But even computers can be programmed to mimic human behaviour.
Then I'm reminded by something Sgt. Doakes in Dexter said, "That's a creep mo-fo right there!"
That sounds about right.
It seems like childhood was very short in Germany. Hoss joined the Army at age 13.
Really enjoy these documentaries. Very articulate, easy to follow and as always -- great to learn some things that I did not know prior. I always place these videos on my other monitor while I'm doing some office work or playing some video games. Thanks for them!
How this "killing machine " had been overlooked through the years blows my mind.
His ability to review his "accomplishments ", during two different trials, without any emotion, is terrifying.
His outlook on his "job" is like someone gardening. These "weeds" must go. It's absolutely bone chilling. .
Evil personified.
Efficient!
Are you attempting to deny the Holocaust?
They’ve only been filling our minds with this history for the last 70 years. And properly so. Where have you been, to bypass the world I live in?
Hëss. A Catholic priest. Praise the lord.
The rest of the world didn't care.
Another moving, detailed, sober insight in the life of a monster, yet, also a human being. Thank you for this documentary.
@Jens Nobel well thought-through comment. I totally agree with you. However, I remain unsure if the realisation of his own monstrous personality really dawned on him in the final days of his life. I still think his “conversion” to Catholicism was only coaxed by his realisation of his imminent execution, not of his crimes.
@@Petal4822 All of European royalty are related. They are a literal cesspool of centuries of inbreeding. King George V was also cousins of both Wilhelm and Nicolas. Just look at a picture of George and Nicolas, they were practically identical twins.
Now we have MONSTERS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
@@owenthomas3474 ...THERE'S ONE IMPORTANT DISTINCTION: THE AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE NOT HELPLESS, UNARMED PEOPLE-(!)
@@BarkBarque ...I NOTICED THAT-!!!
Superb production! Excellent integration of narrative and authentic graphics. Even a review at the end of what was covered, which is a hallmark of good instruction. In 1959 At the age of twelve I read Höss's account of his time as Commandant of Auschwitz, which was the title of the paperback book. I have read many books since about the Holocaust and Auschwitz.
You should read a book about the Balfour-Declaration, if you did not already.
@streptor1 Gotta love deniers and Neo-Nazis. No one else does.
Thank you for sharing this information about this horrible man. I never knew how bad he had been. It is very important to let people know who were those people and what they did to others. The real faces of evil.
We still do it to each other nothing has changed
@@openeverydoor People who call others fascists today,have never met one,and would be terror struck lf they were confronred by the likes of Hoss,DIirlwanger,Goeth,Glubochnik etc. The criminal fraternity irrespective of colour can throw them up with ease. Physchopaths taking advantage of the administration of the cruel and corrupt regime !
They were all evil 😈 even the ones that ignored it
he did many other evil/ creepy things too and so did his filthy wife & kids
I visited the Auschwitz museum last week. It was surreal. Only 6,000 survived out of the 1.5 million who entered, only because they hadn't been there that long. All the crematoriums were destroyed in haste except one. All the Nazi security fled and few were prosecuted. It was satisfying to see the special execution gallow used to hang Rudolf Hoess on the Auschwitz grounds.
May we never forget.
Did you see the swimming pool? Or the brothel near the Abiet Mach Friee gate?
This "village Oświęciem" it was town with about 800 years of tradition. And the town is about 50 km to the west (not south) from Kraków. Error after error...
Thanks for this obviously informed documentary. Höss was obviously monstrous, but he seems to be a victim of faulty programming. As the American psychiatrist observed, he apparently lacked a sense of empathy. Having said that, I think we have to enforce the same penalties on sociopaths as we would on people with genuine consciences who are guilty of similar acts.
They weren't sociopaths. They believed they were doing good
How do we know this? Are you saying that a guard who kicks a helpless, emaciated prisoner not only thinks this is a good thing to do but is normal and not psychopathic?
What do you mean by "faulty programming"?
@@declanburke6999 "Faulty programming" is just my metaphor for psychopathy. One (not-universally-accepted) distinction between a psychopath and a sociopath is that the former is that way from birth, perhaps because of some defect in the brain; while a sociopath is born normal but becomes like a psychopath through years of damaging experience. I wasn't suggesting any literal programming or even some kind of god behind the faulty birth.
Never get involved with religion or the Catholic church for sure
He is completely complicit in the murder of more than a million people. He apparently did it all without empathy. A monster!
Thank you for such an informative and well delivered documentary on h o s s and the Holocaust
Thanks for this, I find it intriguing to see what kind of person could follow these types of orders so calmly and without questions of why. Even at his trial he answered like he was still running the camp.
I would recommend reading Rudolph Hoss's 'auto-biog' ,usually titled 'Commandant of Auschwitz '(though there's not much in it about the camp). He says he intended to join the church but he had a fight with another young boy ,& broke the boys nose .He confessed to his priest ,who without consent informed his parents - & that point lost his religious convictions.
He could have become a priest just like his boss could have been become an artist
Best definition of evil I've heard is that it is a lack of empathy towards our fellow human beings. Hoss more than ticks that particular box. His autobiography gives us a valuable insight into the holocaust which only someone like him could have written.
That's a good definition, but I would amend it to say, "empathy towards our fellow living creatures."
Yes the film nuremberg had some good lines such as" i will not have them taking the easy way out"
Evil doesn’t mean anything . It’s a lazy word. The ability to conduct such atrocities is in all of us. If the conditions are tight you would have commuted such crimes too
I absolutely love this channel, one of the best on RUclips in the history field for sure 🤙💪
Excellent and well made documentary! It was accurate, balanced and provided a good education into the man that ran the largest extermination center and the camp system as a whole.
A less professional account would be laced with bellicose rhetoric which eventually tires the listener.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, this is perhaps the best and clearest narration of any RUclips Video I've listened to.
Psychopaths actually have different brain structure. The area that makes moral decisions is either under-developed or totally non functional. To him, his behavior would have been perfectly logical and reasonable. No thought at all to the right or wrong of the job, only efficiency.
Thank you for this. For your interest and information the women’s concentration camp was Ravensbrück, not Ravensburg. I read the Höss autobiography a number of years ago, and recall that the few emotions he expressed were disillusionment with the Catholic Church (confessional priest told his parents about his childish misdemeanours!) and anger at the incompetence/laziness of some of his camp subordinates. No emotions whatsoever about the more-than-one-million murders he supervised; nor about the hundreds of thousands of people whom he watched decline and die of exhaustion, starvation and camp-induced disease. On a visit to Jerusalem in the 1920s he also became very angry at the dishonesty of Catholic vendors who tried to sell him a bottle of soil, saying “This is the very soil on which the blood of Jesus fell.” Interesting that Höss became so angered and straight-laced at these comparative trivialities but felt nothing at all about the murders he later organised. Forever a mystery - unless in the next few years psychiatry reaches untold heights of wisdom. Thank you again for these accurate and very important videos.
This autobiography is obviously as fake as The Hitler Diaries. Can you think of one good reason why he would write it? Too stupid. Just too stupid to believe.
his wife used to enjoy wearing murdered Jewish women's clothing and using their possessions and she enjoyed cornering the Jewish male prisoners in the garden greenhouse and sexually assaulting them
It's actually disappointing that they killed him. Not that he didn't deserve it. But he was pretty open about his involvement and willing to talk about it. They could have offered some nazis a parole kind of thing, life in prison as long as they talk and cooperate. All the important nazis were executed way before all questions were answered.
And what questions should that be you wanted to ask ?
@@martinfischer2322 This one here joined the NSDAP in 1922. He was in it for 23 years, one of his first friends or comrades in the party was Bormann. He was captured in March 46 and executed less than a year later. Less than a year to tell everything he witnessed in 23 years of his involvement. The amount of nazi documentaries here and on tv shows that people are interested in the topic and have questions about it.
He was asked about a few dozens of nazi officials, mostly those that were captured and on trial. While he must have met countless others.
@@TheAlja back in 45 people was less interested in details of nazi executives than today. It wasn't untill 1968 protests that younger people started to search for details about what was going on when their parents were in charge. It is really sad, but especially in post war Germany there was a strang tendency not to ask many questions but to restore normal life.
Definitely they were obsessed with revenge not mercy
@@martinfischer2322 Besides, the Western liberal democracies wanted to defeat the U.S.S.R. and needed ex-Nazis to run Western Germany.
Thank you very much for this and the other productions. Hard as they are to watch, learn, deny and ultimately accept, your hard work allows these stories to reach new generations. Give us the intelligence and humanity to learn from them.
What bullshit.m
In cases of escaping someone SHOULD have mentioned Captain Witold Pilecki who was Polish volunteer for the Auschwitz and was producing FIRST reports for the allies about the Auschwitz camps. He also created resistance movement inside the camp. As a Pole Im sick of obscuring our heroes in history of WWII.
Excellent narrative . Höss presents himself as a humdrum bureaucrat following orders as Eichmann would do in Jerusalem . Having seen Auschwitz I would strongly recommend visiting this place of horrors .
Thank you for the very informative documentary. Very well narrated as well. I enjoyed watching this 👌
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The name of the camp was Ravensbrück, not Ravensberg/Ravensburg. 40:54
Surprising in this huge Camp complex Hoess was only Lieutenant Colonel. The Kommandant of Mauthausen was a Colonel Standartenfuehrer.
My observation is the system created. A train arrives with 1500. You cannot house or feed them all. The stronger men and women selected for work - processes. The others gassed/cremated. The Kommandant of Treblinka perhaps put his finger on how it worked - the ones to die were regarded as 'Cargo' that the train brought
Strange how the Soviet role in the invasion of Poland is not mentioned.
@@kaiserin7814They may have been worse but they killed Nazis. Too bad they didn't finish the job.
@@kaiserin7814 soviets absolutely weren’t worse. You are only saying that because you’re German. You need to get a grip with the fact that your grandparents were probably sick vile people.
Extremely well elaborated documentary.
This is such an important topic, I recently made a short lecture for my classes, which is on my channel, discussing a couple of the causes to this horrific event. I use the Milgram experiment to discuss this topic. Thank you for covering such an important topic.
You need to watch "Rudolf Hoess's Noose" by Forest Zero
56:56 *German camp in Poland
It seems that when one commits great evil, rather than facing the torment of guilt, some shut themselves off from spaces of feeling and conscience until devoid of both.
My father-in-law ( John G. Hawkins ) was a United States military police officer that guarded Rudolf Hess in the Nuremberg trials.
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Glad he did a good job guarding . And thanks to him .
@@homesteadingtennesseeriver569 I say thanks to you and god bless you too
Did your father in law share any stories about Hess?
@@slandry164 no he never spoke much about the war other than a few things but it was not regarding Hess, he did say Hess was a quite man
I'm so interested in the idea that he raised his family there. I wish they talked a bit more about that. It's crazy raising children in such a place and shielding them so they didn't even realize what was happening
I would find it particularly incredibly hard to explain the smell of thousands of daily incinerations to my children.
Watch the boy in the striped pajamas if you haven't already...
@@notsofatmike1 that movie is shitty and full of shit, a complete historical inaccurate mess, children of nazi officers knew perfectly what was going on, it was no secret at all, they were raised to belive what was happening there was right
Now the whole worlds a mess.. that we are "raising" children in.. and not doing a good job at all. With technology accelerating at light speed.. and people giving their kids a phone at 2 years old.. neglecting them is a disaster in itself! and it's showing!! these are our future leaders of the world mind you.. and they're already completely ruined! it's not looking good at all. with no solutions or even an attempt of anything changing or slowing down. I'm just concerned. and not just for them but for everyone.
@@olivierdujardin8426 when someone lives surrounded by a certain smell, it simply becomes background noise that they aren’t aware of. Hoarders living in human & animal waste experience the same phenomenon.
"Zone of Interest", new movie by Jonathan Glazer about all this.
It should also be mentioned that the question of bombarding the railway tracks was discussed back then and is still today.
History which should never be forgotten so not repeated .
Sir, would you also please profile the Wannsee Conference . What really happened there coz that’s one hell of a story . Thank you .
Suggest to watch 2001 "Conspiracy" movie with Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich and Stanly Tucci as Adolf Eichmann
This channel is about people, not events
The "Wansee Conference" movie is on RUclips with subtitles for free.
@@tpxchallenger That is the one.
Why dont you watch the HBO movie on the Wannsee conference?
damn this man is a monster, the man that actually acted out the monstrous and humanity less actions.
Factual, well-conceived. brilliant. Well done.
It's bullshit...Zio style
Excellent documentary. I believe that sociopaths like Hoss, are more common in society than we like to think. My feeling is, the difference between Hoss and the other nascent sociopaths in society, is that the years of violence had conditioned him so thoroughly, that he was capable of any atrocity, and then going home to his family at night, as if he had been working in a bakery. There is a documentary called Shtetl,, a part of which deals with poles who protected Jews, and others that turned them in, or shot them.
It seems, that all the crazy things that were going on in the world back in the 30s, is happening. Just look at Russia, with a ruthless, sociopathic, ex KGB leader, with troops on the Ukrainian border. We on the west have to stand up to these gangsters, or it happens all over again.
@streptor1 There are tiny clues in this little "movie" that give away what is now happening on this planet & why. There has been a long held maniacal desire for a certain group to destroy & or enslave ALL Europeans & to take posession of Europe. This criminal desire was all but extinguished a hundred years ago by concerned Europeans. Now, this generation of Europeans faces the mother of all revenge attempts & they're too brainwashed to even realise what is happening.
So, who did they say migrated massively into Ukraine? Who was ejected from England & France & elsewhere? So long as humanity is entranced, brainwashed, enslaved, taxed & usurped by serpents, there remains the risk that an envenomated humanity will ultimately perish, leaving only the slavemasters & some young, pretty, impressionable, controlled slaves.
How do we remedy this?
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I cannot believe a human or any breathing entity is capable of doing these atrocities. Excellent. I hope everybody’s conscious is awaken. I doubt it.There are individuals who are like that I am sorry to say. Thank you for your awaking human being.
Absolutely terrific history lesson!
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As Napolean once said. "What is history, but a fable agreed upon"
41:50 The entire world did know what was going on, but refused to do anything to even slow it down, & every nation in the world turned down Hitler's offer to export the doomed to their shores.
56:57 it wasn't Polish camp, it was entirely German. Think sometimes what are you saying.
He may mean it started off initially as a Polish army barracks. Germans turned it into concentration camp when they captured Poland.
Thank you so much for mentioning slovak history too :)
Very informational. Especially important to watch now as history seems to be repeating itself. We said never again and we meant it 💔
This must have taken so much work! 👏👏👏
Hoss last words as he stood on the hangman scaffold were “ I can see my house from here !”
The picture shown at 1:00 is supposed to depict our German city of Baden-Baden. But the houses on the right carry Russian inscriptions.
Greetings from Germany
Don't you write Russian inscriptions on your buildings?
@@dinkster1729 No, we don't.
Great stuff. Thank you.
"Lets not bicker and argue over who killed who.."
Monty Python
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth”
Adolf Hitler.
Thank you so much for making this, documenting our history, shame on the people they should be ashamed of themselves allowing such disgusting actions to take place rip to all the victims Jews, and non Jews all rip 🙏
This is a good reminder of what humanity is capable of.
I discovered ur channel a while ago but saw the first ShoW yesterday(Himmler). Man, this was the best documentary i ve ever seen about the 3. Reich. That means a lot due to be from Germany. We got the first lection o f the dark past before we got our first milk as a new born.I m deeply impressed.Great coverage a nd such a pleasant voice. I ll be bing watching for the next coup!e of weeks. Wunderbar...AufWiedersehen,bin in 3 Wochen wieder da.
Always interesting to see these videos! Thank you and greetings from Finland 🌍!
Excellent. I never heard of him before.
The description "he may appear socially normal, but has absolutely no empathy for any human being" seems very accurate wifh what ihave heard about this guy.
Certo che se fossero sottotitolati in Italiano, sarei così felice, perché sono sicuro che questo video sia molto interessante.
It is , this documentary is really good!
Why I am watching this after a documentary about the "walk of death" of 1945. Great work, subscribed !
In Fact I think I know why, instead of spending our summer at the beach, my father would take us to the struthof, a concentration camp in the east of France. I still remember the picture of a kid, dead, hanging to barb wire by his coat, the « hoven « , the gallow in the middle of the courtyard.., yup, great holidays
Thanks for this very clear documentary. You ask what we think about Hoss? Well those people that did what they did were not normal people: they were cold, sadistic,unbalanced psycologycally, with a strong belief of vengance. War is a very horryfing thing; power, hates and a " beautiful propaganda" made those men do what they did. And there are no mercy for them. no, never.But we have to remember that not only those men well known did what they did but also a lot of anonymus people accepted the ideology of the nazi and fascist politics. And I am sure that a lot of German people denied that they knew what was going on in those terrific places known as concentration camps. All of the Allies knew about that and did nothing before the end of the war.
These countries wouldn't let people fleeing the Nazis enter them either.
Höss wrote a book during his trial called master of auschwitz that is a fascinating read. First hand accounts from the perpetrators are so rare and it's shocking to see the broken thinking that he tried to use to justify turning into a monster. How normal his family life was also makes the book that much more disturbing
Yes it is the juxtaposition between regular family man and mass murderer which is fascinating. Just like Bibi Netanyahu, who goes to the UN and appears to be quite sane, but as soon as he returns to Israel he gives orders to the IDF to perform military operations like caste lead, which resulted in the deaths of over three thousand innocent Palestinians in Gaza. And then you have his political opponents like Benny Gantz who placed ads on TV showing a clock which counts the number of dead Palestinians he was responsible for in his time as army chief. Completely sick, is the word I use to describe such a TV campaign. Can you imagine that add being shown on the BBC or NBC networks. And these Israelis have the gaul to consider themselves as being the one civilised democracy in the middle east.
also many lies & evil deeds left out of course from the coward nazi mass murderer & his family
Dear God. May we never forget 🙏
Isn’t it crazy how many of these nazis grew up in a rather good home with parents who actually acted for them and wanted to go down a good path like Rudolfs father wanting him to go to seminary school and be a man of god but then it just went full 180.
Don't forget the extremely militarized culture that he was raised in as well as antisemitism and other racial superiority beliefs that the Nazis built on were deeply routed in the German people after ww1. The Dolchstoßlegende(roughly translated to backstabbing legend) and other myths gave Jews the fault for Germanys loss in ww1. Basically to boost moral the Germans were told that they were better than everyone else with heavy influence from Nordic mythics(blonde and blue eyes as beauty ideal for example). The SS symbol was composed of Nordic runes as well.
He probably saw some bad stuff at the frontline while serving in WWI as an underaged child soldier (apparently he witnessed the Armenian genocide) and it completely changed his religious fanaticism to a militaristic fanaticism. Keep in mind this guy joined the military to fight WWI at 14 years old. He had no chance of being a normal and functional human being.
Its important to note that antisemitism was widespread in Germany even before the Nazis came to power. Why do you think Germany followed the Nazis in the first place, they were a party of hard-core nationalists, the difference between hard-core nationalists of America/Britain/Italy/France to the Nazis? If Germany never invaded and started ww2 i doubt the west would've cared much about them. Of course that doesn't justify their treatment of Jewish people in anyway but the west was pretty chummy with Nazi Germany until they invaded everything lol. And fighting for what, for "democracy" where people play God, call mentally handicapped people retards, yeah "land of the free", so much better than nazi Germany lol
Yes I have also wondered about that. Maybe this is an example of the banality of evil.
And also it doesn't make much difference what kind of household people are raised in - by the time you hit 18 you're an adult and you can form your own decisions and no one can tell you what to do, you can vote, get married, get restraining orders, go to university etc
I just wanna say... Man is a Wolf for Man !!!
Thx so much about this story in WW2 History to Death Camps.
Jonathon Glazer absolutely killed it with Zone of Interest. amazing eye opening film. Akin to the book "a few good men" how even tho they were evil monsters, they were just people in a terrible situation themselves.
You watch well researched shows like this one and you can see how others would say the events did not happen. If you think about the severity and the enormous things and events that happened then it is easy to say that this is made up and could not have happened and is all the more reason to never forget and why history matters to everyone lest it repeat itself.
I would argue the enormity and scale and severity of the holocaust would make one more inclined to believe it happened since there is overwhelming evidence to those events having taken place.
@streptor1 so, you are denying the holocaust happened? Denying the deaths of 11 million people happened? Where did they go? Did they vanish? Were they taken by aliens? How do you explain this?
"Well researched" implies that the accused are heard, too.
@@karlgharst5420 @ 35:36, the accused speaks, did you even watch this video to hear what they said?!
@@msandoval8027 Tortured by the British, Hoss signed a "confession" written in English which was a language he didn't speak!
Sick, despicable and evil regardless of what excuses the perpetrators used to try to justify this reugnant episode of world history.
Need all future generations to know of it and historians to speak of so that it will never happen again.
And, so that nobody will think that if they try such massive evil that they'll get away with it.
Good documentary.
Peace.
Excellent. Details but little editorial and opinions. Leave that to the audience who can think for themselves. A rare quality in media today.
Hoss did what was asked of him just like all the rest of the unswervingly loyal fanatics. It is important to look at the big picture even deeper than this production to see that he was human too with emotions.
There are living human beings who totally lack empathy. Give them positions of control and power and here you have the result.
Exactly, the Tory party today!!!!!🙄
Have been on a guided tour of Auschwitz - Birkenau. The area where the cattle trucks stopped and unloaded in such a way, the guide explained that some of these people, from Greece or Hungary, had been crammed into these trucks for several days, with no water or food in the stifling heat of summer. Often paused in sidings for hours or days to allow other, 'more important', trains with logistics, through.
"Then the poor souls were unloaded at this spot" the guide explained.
Commented as the above not mentioned on several documentaries I've seen
I love this video about Rudolph Hoss.
I love how you mention Czech and Slovak efforts in each video about Nazi Germany. Lot of history blamed our countries for collaborating with Nazi Germany, but truth being told Allies failed us and gave up our teritory without our consent. It was either join Nazi Germany or join nazi Germany while being bombed. People here never gave up, we had partisans, resistance, goverment (British refused to aknowledge them) who killed Himmler or people who ran away from Auswitch when they heard about planned transport of Hungarian jews and begged Allies to bomb trainrails. If allies did they would save half million of people.
Off topic but this is why both my country and Czechia must stand with Ukraine now and show them they are not alone. We know the pain of betrayal and feeling of being left alone better than most
British soldiers checked a disguised Himmler's papers and found a false stamp on there which gave him away. He then killed himself while in their custody... Your country would never have made it without Brittain and its allies whos soldiers fought and died to liberate Europe... Teach people that instead of highlighting mistakes made by your Allies...
@@kurtphillips6799 we of course honor all allied soldiers that died liberating Europe, but the sentiment here was very resentful even after the war. We were told our sovereignty would be protected, instead our lands were promised to the Germans during the Munich dictate and we were not even invited to the talks
They didn’t kill himmler, they took out Heydrich.
Small point.
Geographically Auswitz was a very long way off. The Air Forces were hard pressed to destroy strategic targets in Germany. In any case winning the war solves the problems.