The DISGUSTING Crimes Of Rudolf Höss - The Commandant Of Auschwitz

At the Nuremberg Trials following the end of the Second World War, the true crimes of the Nazis and the Third Reich were uncovered. Rudolf Höss the Commandant of Auschwitz, who had overseen the mass murder of over 1 million people was brought to trial shockingly as a defence witness. He admitted the true murderous intent of the Holocaust, and he eventually was sentenced to death and was executed on a specially made gallows inside his former concentration camp.

Rudolf Höss' crimes were endless. He had a long career within the SS and worked in many different concentration camps before he became the Commandant of Auschwitz. Höss worked at Sachsenhausen where he became the second in command, and was in charge of a firing squad that executed hundreds of people and he too shot many with his own pistol. But he was then asked to research the creation of a huge concentration camp in Poland, and following this was appointed as the Commandant of Auschwitz. The camp he oversaw became truly colossal in its scale and its deadly mission to exterminate those whom the Nazis wished to kill. Höss oversaw the creation of the gas chambers at Auschwitz, and continued to massacre thousands of people a day. The conditions in the camp were violent and barbaric, and Höss was the one in charge of this. He was responsible for the guards such as Irma Grese who were incredibly sadistic.

Höss was removed from command inside Auschwitz, but he then returned to oversee the mass murder of over 400,000 people the following year. After the end of the war, he was brought to trial in Poland and was sentenced to death. He believed initially he had murdered over 2 and a half million people, but later revised the death toll to around 1 million. His crimes were truly sadistic and awful, and show us how disgusting he was.

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[ruthmaryrose]

The greatest horror to glean from studying the atrocities of the past is the knowledge that such people still exist and even worse atrocities are possible.

[steveguest]

Seeing those little children holding hands not knowing what was about to happen to them is truly heart breaking and vile, how could anyone do this its totally beyond my comprehension

[debbiepullman]

How can people be filled with evil to hurt people and animals

[thomasweatherford]

It’s incredible he was treated so well in the Polish prison he stayed in. That level of humanity didn’t exist in Nazi Germany even in the smallest of amounts.

[renee]

Thank You for sharing this. We must Never Forget. Rest In Peace to All of the Innocent Victims 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[boivilla]

In 1995..We have visited Poland and Auschwitz concentration camp....I saw pile of old dusty luggage's....old gas cannisters....thousand of eye glasses. Our tour guide show us where the German guards use to cremates the bodies of those prisoners.... But the most traumatizing to me is the gas chamber....inside the chamber is a large...in close room....its dark....cold and eerie feelings.... Our guide pointed the flash light to the wall....you could see scratches made by people dying gasping for air.... While being gassed....men..women....young and old....and children.... I silently cried...imagining the dying innocent children in that very room....its almost sun down when we get out of the concentration camp gate....we offered a short prayer for that place....and before we leave...I look back at that camp one more time....its so quiet...dark and sad place....I will visit Poland again someday....but never in that Auschwitz concentration camp ...I pray that Holocaust will never happen again....executing those Nazi criminals is not enough... For the crimes they have committed.

[davidlitchke]

There are demons roaming the earth in human form. He was one of them.

[UltimateBargains]

"When you start making excuses for atrocities, you have removed yourself from any valid discussion on morals." -- Matt Dillahunty
"As long as people believe in absurdities, people will commit atrocities." -- Voltaire

[LRBerry]

It says a lot about the people he met in prison while in Poland that showed him such kindness.

[davidbrandel]

It’s kind of spooky the way he reflexively leans away from the noose in the picture. The self preservation instinct is so strong he might not have even realized he was doing it.

[allandavis]

Before I watch this I would like to say that “disgusting” does not quite adequately describe the crimes Hoss and his cronies committed, heinous, brutal, barbaric, insane, evil, mindless, murderers and inhuman, and that’s just for starters, but I expect using some of my choice language would get the YouTube bots fired up and this video taken down, I admire your restraint in using a word that didn’t trigger the bots.

[georgebrown]

So shocking, sickening, and infuriating such a man as Rudolf Hoess could commit crimes as barbarous as the ones described in this video. And heart-breaking as well. Thank you for this video ofthe Holocaust. May the innocent victims of this dark era rest in peace and be remembered, not only Jews, but others who were murdered as well.

[michaelkida]

William Faulkner, a great writer, said in The Sound and the Fury, "Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." Victories never end wars. Both will go on and on and on until the end of time. This is but one reason that life is absurd.

[remalm]

... Sadly, I don't think we've learned anything. And we are about to repeat the unthinkable ...

[marcioreis]

Mengele died in Brazil with his family help until his death, and lived a somewhat good compared to others, not to mention the Ratline ones that got away and don't forget the ones that the Allies government made them citizens and useful for their own purposes. Justice???? What justice.

[TheAlmightyAss]

I just finished reading his autobiography and it is a very interesting read knowing what he did. I found his love for animals and early life pressure and solitude almost humanising, as someone who loves animals and lives a lonely life myself.

He portrays himself as someone who valued duty above all else, and that nobody in the SS ever even thought of questioning orders. He isnt really remorseful, learnt nothing and talks about Jews and gypsies and Jehovah's etc with a cold callousness and interest that is typical of a Nazi.

Honestly, I think maybe there is a kernel of truth to the notions of duty and fear but he is definitely lying like fuck in that book, sweetening the shit out of himself.

[maxi]

Interesting that Hoss's final statement revolved around his crimes against Polish people (and even there he acknowledged responsibility for only some of the crimes that took place), but he could not bring himself to include within his statement his crimes against Jews, the main target of his murders. For the Germans who believed the Nazi propaganda, the Jew was the mortal enemy.

[Slavs-me]

How the Commandant of Auschwitz was "Forgiven" for his Sins:

Rudolf Hoss, the Commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp, was brought up as a Catholic and aspired to become a priest before joining the German army in 1916 and becoming a decorated soldier. In the post war years Hoss joined the Right wing paramilitary Freikorps. Inspired by Hitler, he became one of his earliest Nazi henchmen in 1922 and resorted to political assassinations in an aim to overthrow the post war German government. After being arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison in 1923, Hoss was given amnesty in 1928 as Weimar Germany attempted to appease its Nazi extremists.

In 1933 Hoss joined Hitler's newly formed personal bodyguard and Nazi military wing, the SS. And, with his experience as a former prisoner Hoss was deemed uniquely suited to an administrative appointment at the Dachau concentration camp before being promoted to Adjutant at Sachenhausen in 1938 and Commandant of the new camp at Auschwitz in 1940. During 1941-42 Hoss expanded the camp facilities and streamlined and perfected the process of industrial mass murder while building gas chambers, crematoria and utilizing starvation as a means of realizing the “Final Solution”. In late 1941 he ordered the murder of 850 Soviet POWs, who served as Guinea pigs for testing the newly constructed gas chambers. Subsequently, an additional 1.5 million people, mostly Jews perished in a similar manner while another half million were starved to death before the Camp was liberated by the Red Army in January, 1945.

On one occasion in 1940 Hoss freed a Jesuit Superior, Władysław Lohn, who had been captured by the SS guards after sneaking into the camp in search of imprisoned fellow Jesuits. After the war ended, Hoss was captured, tried and convicted of crimes against humanity. Hoss, a man with a large family, including five children, remained unrepentant during his testimony at the Nuremberg trials where he methodically detailed the mass killings at Auschwitz. But, he supposedly underwent a transformation while in a Polish prison awaiting execution, where he expressed remorse after being treated well by guards who were former prisoners at Auschwitz. After requesting an audience with a Catholic priest, Father Władysław Lohn, whose life Hoss spared earlier in 1940, complied and listened to Hoss’s lengthy confession before giving him absolution and forgiving him for his sins.

But, why would any priest acquiesce to such a demand from a mass murderer responsible for the most heinous of war crimes ? Hoss’s transformation from a callous SS officer to a repentant human being asking “God” for forgiveness has been cited by Catholic theologians as an example of God's divine mercy on all souls, including the likes of Hoss. But, the real truth is most likely clouded by the complicated relationship between the Catholic Church and the Third Reich.

[dabsafe]

Even a horrible story can have a happy ending. In this case at the end of a rope.

[mqbitsko]

Those Allied officers are looking at Hoss like they've found an ugly grub under a rock.