Comments by "Crotchet" (@quaver1239) on "Rudolf Höss - Commandant of Auschwitz Documentary" video.

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.
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