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
When I was a young man, in the 80's, I served with the US Army's 11th ACR in West Germany patrolling the Inter-German border.
At the time, our command required every one of us who were new to Germany to visit Dachau.
Now, Dachau was a work camp, not an extermination camp like Auschwitz was, but it was nevertheless one of the experiences that stuck with me the most in Germany. The docents walked us through the camp, showing us the displays and answering our questions in a dry, factual manner. There was almost no hyperbole in it at all, just a recitation of facts and figures. At the end of the tour, we were allowed to walk around the camp area for about 20 minutes or so, talking among ourselves. When we got back to the gates, the head docent told us, 'I will now ask you a question, but only answer to yourself. What do you think about all this?' He then turned his back and walked back into the 'Arbeit macht Frei' gates and closed them as we got back on the buses.
When we got back, we were all taken to the unit day room and watched a video from the Regimental Colonel. In it, he said, "There is real evil in the world. There, just across the border that you'll soon be patrolling, is evil. Those guard towers, those minefields, that barbed wire isn't there to keep NATO out, but to keep the peoples of Eastern Europe in. Those towers aren't even manned by soldiers of the Soviet or DDR or Czechoslovakian armies. They're manned by Internal Security troops. And make no mistake, there are concentration camps in the Soviet Union today. They call them 'gulags'. Our fathers and grandfathers did a legendary job putting an end to Nazism, but the job isn't done yet. That job falls to you."
Ah, but the US. has more people in prison than all nations combined . The new camps !!
@@kensnyder9372 The US does not operate a prison-slave economy. Prisoners who choose to work are paid the state or federal minimum wage [depending on which prison system they're in], with the costs of their incarceration/upkeep deducted from their wages, just like every other citizen.
What's more, people are not incarcerated by party apparatchiks like the Communists did it. They go to prison for breaking laws that every society has... robbery, violence, drug dealing, etc. Are some states in the US harsh in their sentencing? Yes, they are. But those laws are openly and lawfully enacted by the state legislatures and NOT because a figure like Himmler or Dzerzhinsky simply ordered it.
@@carlhicksjr8401 Yes , that maybe true but there still people killed in US prisons when the there seam to be no one around oh the systems was turned off oh the guards were taking there lunch hour. Then all of a sudden everyone shows up , it happens all the time to people that will tell things that only the high GOV. don't want to get out !! So those HARSH laws were off by some one so who knows what there intentions are ??
@@kensnyder9372 Name one country where it's impossible for a prisoner to get shanked.
That happens everywhere.
I fully grant you that some cases [you're referring to the Epstein prostitution case here] are particularly egregious, but every country in the world has had prisoners that were more convenient dead than alive.
At least in the US' case most [not all, most] such prisoners are actually convicted of a crime that everyone knows is a crime... instead of 'treachery' or 'Party disloyalty'.
I'm not saying that the American system of justice is both fair and evenly applied. It's not. But it beats the fuck out of getting sentenced to a Gulag because your neighbor reported that you 'lacked enthusiasm for the Party' you to the KGB.
@@carlhicksjr8401 Oh really , look no further than today's party's here in US. trying to put each others members in jail or maybe worse and there has been people shot because they belong to one party or the other .The only difference is one group got better hair cuts than the other !!
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.
“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 😵💫
HIS WIFE WASN'T OBLIVIOUS OR IGNORANT OR STUPID, SHE KNEW
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 TH-cam 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.
@@user-se5tf2tc7e 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.
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
This documentary should be shown to high school history classes. These events should never forgotten or forgiven.
Well, around 10 minutes ,it is mentioned that the Freikorps fought against factory labourers .
In 1917 there was a revolution in Russia, and the ''Bolsheviks'' saw the 1918 Crisis in Germany as a perfect ground to expand their Bolshevism..and it were actually these Freikorpsen that saved Germany from being taken over by the leftist's.
Things like these are hardly mentioned.
Forgive or can’t be God says so .
I agree 100% with you.
I disagree with not forgiving. The people of Germany aren't Nazis. They were re-socialized to no longer being Nazis. Half of my family is from Germany. None of my family were Nazi, they were regular army, soldiers. One of my cousins was a war orphan.
Yes, it should be taught in high school, it was in my high school, the seniors saw the films in the last weeks of schools. This was over 40 years ago. It's probably still taught in California now.
It's been happening in Africa for decades, but no one cares.
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.
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
Fascinating. Thank you. I read Hoss's memoires and was struck, bizarrely, by how dull he came across. In another life time he would have been running, say, a car factory and I think viewed the concentration camp system in that light. It was a process to him, to be carried out with maximum efficiency. Nothing more. Very scary.
@@h.p.lovecraftscat3613 oh?
@@h.p.lovecraftscat3613 yeah cite a source about this systematic testicle kicking. It's not that I don't believe you, but I like to read primary sources.
More like running an abbatoir!!!🤮🤮🤮
@@h.p.lovecraftscat3613 for the sakee of the world and Hitler wanting world dominating. He also did take Guernsey!!!!
That was nothing more than Hoes's way to somehow extricate himself from the evil he knowingly perpetrataded. He was a convinced and rabid antisemite who hated almost everyone.
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.
In 1946, young french writer and officer Robert Merle interviewed Höss. The result of his work was printed as " la mort est mon métier" (death is my job). The book can still be purchased nowadays, as part of Merle's work.
I know his grandson. He was among the first group of people I met after I moved to Germany. The family's known as a "große Nazi Familie."
He said that if he could find his grandfather's grave, he would spit on it. For leaving everyone in the family who came after him "such a heavy burden to carry all through their lives."
You must be referring to Rainer. He's a sweetheart! Yes, he told me, too, that he'd spit on his grandfather's grave, if he knew where it was.
Carrying a heavy burden thanks to the media
@@Weezy10580 not that his grandfather was muderering shite...smh...
@@Sadiqi Of all the horrific wars in history this is the only one the Jewish media talks about. It’s caused lots of guilt from next generations of former Nazis that could be targeted unnecessarily
then this grandson is a traitor to our people my grandfather served there. i respect and love his memory.
Read the Hoess autobiography that goes into further extensive detail. His villa at Auschwitz is "outside" the camp behind a row of trees, yet has a direct line of sight to the gaskammer & crematorium at Auschwitz eins. Interesting note is the only doctor that was consistently sober during the "selections" was Mengele. Hoess was a superb witness at Nuremburg as he was direct and truthful about the operational processes at the vernichtungslager among other testimonies. Like a stereotypical Germanic robot. Precise, unemotional, and psychopathic.
@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!”
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.
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
This is such a fantastic documentary. Hats off to the team behind this channel.
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.
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
Thoroughly researched and detailed, with a precision that is sorely lacking in other videos on this topic. Well done!
Brilliantly done
In the year 2000, the Auschwitz camp headquarters report appeared, and we discover orders from Höss ordering his men not to bother prisoners with work on Sundays, reminding them of the prohibition of stealing their personal objects, and that they must be provided with sufficient nourishment. If these reports had been found before his trial, and had he not been tortu'red, he probably would n o t have been hung.(T'ell the `Tru'th and Sha'me the `Dev'il by `Ge'rard `Men'uhin, pp seventeen through eighteen.)
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"?
I like how these Documentaries produced by The People Profiles give an unrivalled degree of research and detail.
I would really disagree with that.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
A stellar piece of work…as I have come to expect from you. What often comes across when looking into these high ranking Nazi men is the banality of evil as practiced by them, and the lack of empathy they all seem to have had in common.🖤🇨🇦
He is completely complicit in the murder of more than a million people. He apparently did it all without empathy. A monster!
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-!!!
There are people like Hoss in every nation and race who are capable and possess the potential for such evil behaviour. It only has to be ignited by some maniacal individual or ideology. With this in mind it is incumbent on every person to maintain a high level of vigilance and observation to preempt any such similar situation that is in any way similar to what took place in Germany during the regime of Hitler. Sadly the world is often indifferent to these people as they manifest themselves and then it is too late to stop them. They exist and live amongst us today.
Sadly, I agree. People think "it can't happen here", but it can, and if not checked, it will.
It's more likely we'll see communist rather than Nazi rule. Communists are no joke either.
Im one of them
@@Bodyfitcph me too, I'll never hurt a pet let alone a human being but I'll sign the death warrant of a whole race if I'm in a position or the authority to do so. Luckily I'm not and never want to be.
You have explained one of less appealing aspects of humanity as a whole and as individuals. The system was permission.
Make no mistake, the capacity for heinous, untenable cruelty, violence, murder & even mass murder rests within every human being...EVERY human being. People from all walks of life commit atrocious acts of unthinkable horror every day even though thought by friends, acquaintances & loved ones to be somehow "incapable of such evil". Labeling others as "monsters" w/out recognizing the monster w/in ourselves will keep us perpetually benighted about human nature, forever inhibiting our ability to better understand & even ameliorate such tendencies.
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.
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.
Amazing job on this video. It’s obvious a lot of work and research went into this. Keep up the great work👍
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
Thank you for the very informative documentary. Very well narrated as well. I enjoyed watching this 👌
I’ve left a like 👍
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
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.
So well done! This should be seen by everyone, especially as we see the rise of fascism today.
Yes the antifascist fascists! Its an amazing thing to witness
@@only5186 Justolf Trudler
@@kevinsworld5088 😂
@@only5186 facts
@@only5186 can you define fascism?
Thank you for such an informative and well delivered documentary on h o s s and the Holocaust
Extremely well elaborated documentary.
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.
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?
I've read his autobiography so really enjoyed seeing tjis video.Very well made.
I absolutely love this channel, one of the best on TH-cam in the history field for sure 🤙💪
Thank you so much, this is perhaps the best and clearest narration of any TH-cam Video I've listened to.
Thank you for this video on another Nazi war criminal who met justice at the end of a rope around his neck. It is so astounding and troubling how Rudolf Hoess and his likes could be so monstrously cruel and depraved as to inflict ghastly suffering on others. Although he is now dead, his name will go down in infamy, reproach, and shame for all time on earth, and deservedly so. May we also remember the innocent victims, not only Jews, but also others whom the Nazis deemed "subhuman' or unfit to live.
I did go to visit Auschwitz at the age of eight. Where my mother lived prior to war it wasn't that far. When the time come for us to return home after a vacation I got to naging my mother untold times that I wanted to visit the place. There was this reason of religion that messed me up to the point that I was told to come with my mother to see a higher in church hierarchy in order to be admited to first communion. While there I told my mother that I wanted to wonder through the place on my own. One thing I had an issue with reconciling with a spot where they hanged the person who was in charge of the place. It was as if he got a slap on his hand but not adequate punishment. Later I did find out that they tried three times to finally get him 'right' to hang.
Exzellent and fair video!You could be a modern teacher in Germany about history ! Greetings from HEIDELBERG!
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
Thank you for the information. Some years ago I visited Auschwitz and the guide pointed out the house of Rudolf Höss. I wondered what kind of man could live there, so close to the horrors, with his family unaware of everything that was going on.
You are right. He actually saw death of 1 million people over a period of 4 years. I wonder how could he sleep in the nights.
I feel his family knew about all this dirty killings.
I don´think they were unaware. They were well aware but they were evil nazis
Upon watching this, it reminded me of the film The Boy In The Stripped Pajamas. Was that film loosley based on the family life of Hoss?
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 TH-cam with subtitles for free.
@@tpxchallenger That is the one.
Why dont you watch the HBO movie on the Wannsee conference?
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.
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.
56:56 *German camp in Poland
An excellent documentary. I've just been to see The Zone of Interest which is currently in the cinemas, concerning the life of the Höss family while they were living next to the Auschwitz camp.
Witold's Report, also known as Pilecki's Report, is a report about the Auschwitz concentration camp written in 1943 by Witold Pilecki, a Polish military officer and member of the Polish resistance.
The Vrba-Wretzler report is also about Auchwitz and the report reached Roosevelt and Churchill and stopped Hungarian deportations to Auscwitz.
Hoss was a cog in a machine. A major cog, a driving cog, but a cog none the less. It was unlikely that he would have done any of this if not asked/told/and encouraged by his superiors. He would have worked out well in any assignment given to him, but this was the assignment that he got. Leastwise this is the feel that I had gotten from your production. Your work is well made and easy to watch. I am a monk in a monastery, could I have done this. To be honest with you, yes I could have given the portrait that you have presented on Hoss. That is to say, how close are any of us from transgressing that edge of humanity.
It is terrifying to read your comment, tbh.
I think the whole organisation was put in place to make it so that nobody could be held responsible for the prisoner's treatment. If a cog, as you say, wasn't working, it would be easy to replace it (him). I don't think Himmler would have taken kindly to any refusal to obey orders, either. Yes, I've heard that at one stage, men were given the opportunity to not be involved in the killing, and nobody took up the offer, but I would be surprised if it was a usual thing.
As to people who say that 'following orders' is not a justification for their actions, holding a gun at someone's head would be a fairly good incentive to do what you're told.
@greasylimpet3323 Hoess was a high ranking SS officer as commandant of Auschwitz. He could have easily resigned or asked for a transfer.
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
35:50 incorrect translation!
"We will discuss it amongst us, but never in public." Big difference.
This must have taken so much work! 👏👏👏
This documentary is very well made. I didn't even know he existed.
Ah that’s the question, what if he didn’t? Who then is behind this campaign? I wonder…
Really ?
you should watch The Nazis and the Final Solution, a BBC production. Very detailed. Excellent program. About 5 episodes. some of it is posted on Daily Motion.
@@ssherrierable Wonder all you like. There is no "question", no "campaign", and no doubt, so you can come out from behind your carefully worded disguise.....if you dare.
@@malcolmledger176 Very well said....
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
Well done documentary. Thanks for the attention to detail.
It should also be mentioned that the question of bombarding the railway tracks was discussed back then and is still today.
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 .
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
Where ever there is a person sounding knowledgable there is always people willing to listen and follow
To many followers
I really just want to see a movie about this guys garden.
The thumbnails are really cool for all these videos
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"Incapable of empathy", to paraphrase the military psychologist referenced in the documentary, is the simplified definition of psychopathy. In current practice the term "psychopath" is avoided for some reason, "sociopath" is used instead. Either way it's the same disease. It should be understood that not all sociopaths are homicidal maniacs. In fact there may be one or more in your corporate chain of command since they tend to gravitate to executive positions. Still, regardless the disease or what you choose to call it, we must all be prepared to accept responsibility for any crime we may commit.
Absolutely terrific history lesson!
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As Napolean once said. "What is history, but a fable agreed upon"
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.
Well-presented, with just the right balance of showing the nazis for the scum that they were without over-editorializing. Following orders doesn't cut it anymore. It all comes down to the conscience and actions of the cogs in the machine, like you and me. May we never have to put it to the test.
Very well said 👏
You must not be very knowledgeable of axis forces if WW2 glad you're now aware of this monster
Food for thought indeed... It reminds me of Bloody Sunday in Derry where after gunning down 13 civilians and wounding many more the Paratroop Regiments officers and enlisted men involved used exactly this " following orders " excuse. You are right. It didn't cut it in the 1940's and it didn't cut it any better in Northern Ireland at any time since.
@@jishualamb3085 dude iam aware of the evils 😈 nazi past the weird thing is Wana be nazis are still around wtf
Did ya get vaxxed?
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
Factual, well-conceived. brilliant. Well done.
It's bullshit...Zio style
Amazing documentaries 👍
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.
History which should never be forgotten so not repeated .
Great documentary thanks for posting
Tremendous video. Utterly chilling.
Always interesting to see these videos! Thank you and greetings from Finland 🌍!
Excellent. I never heard of him before.
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
Thank you so much for mentioning slovak history too :)
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.
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
Great video.Very very informative.
Hoss last words as he stood on the hangman scaffold were “ I can see my house from here !”