The DISGUSTING Evil Of Rudolf Höss - The Commandant Of Auschwitz

During the Second World War, one of the most horrific war criminals of the conflict was Rudolf Höss who became the Commandant of Auschwitz. He was later executed on a gallows inside of his own camp, but he was responsible for the deaths of over 1 million people. But Höss was someone who was a murderer years before the war broke out, and he had a dark history for violence and brutality.
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[@hallenebrooks5630]

How dare he talk about his family “suffering”, with all the suffering he inflicted upon innocents….

[@jonathannixon8652]

I say the same thing here in America when I hear people complaining about America. †

[@elainsmith7711]

is anyone really innocent?.......

[@denniscosban6145]

​@@jonathannixon8652yep and it's justifiable. The problem is there isn't enough people complaining

[@Tatteddaddydc]

The Nazis suffered. /s

[@randomdude5938]

@@elainsmith7711yes. Nice self report tho. Seek help.

[@renee1961]

God Bless All of the Innocent Victims, Survivors, and Those that Fought for Them. Rest In Peace 🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ We Must Never Forget.

[@richardjones3826]

And where was god while all this genocide was going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@patriciapayne1274]

@@richardjones3826 He gave us all free will. Some make good choices and some make evil ones. There is evil in this world.

[@dkuhs]

Typical of monsters like this . He is not sorry for anything he did . He relished it . He is only sorry he was caught and has to pay the consequences. Horrible evil man he was .

[@Wodenson]

I was watching the Nuremberg trial today for the first time,and he struck me as particularly evil, there's a dark poetry in his life ending in the same camp he haunted as it's commandant.

[@Necron990]

Indeed, the irony is through the roof.

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

It was a Political decision, nothing less, nothing more.

[@user-fi2ix7mr6i]

Twilight zone had a episode that mimicked this monster and holocaust. Perhaps coincidence, though familiar.

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

The evil, just the unbelievable evil, housed in just this one ... "person" is mind blowing!!

[@adtreads84]

I've read his book! No remorse and seems like he tries playing the victim!

[@WolfoftheWoodsAirsoft]

I recently visited Auschwitz and Birkenau camps. It is hard to take in what was done there when you see the shoes, suitcases, children's clothes and a pile of human hair that fills half a room...when you walk past the common gallows and the death wall and then into a gas chamber and the adjoining crematorium there is an echo of the horrors. To this day i cannot fathom how any man or woman could do these despicable, inhuman acts and after the war go back to being an ordinary person living an ordinary life seemingly without a care. I looked at Hoss's gallows and wondered if the ghosts of all the souls he killed watched him perish

[@gc4644]

There were no tears shed for Rudolph Hoss.

[@elainsmith7711]

not by any jews anyway but he did have family.

[@boomerang4864]

There was no trapdoor, just a stool which was pulled away. He strangled to death.

[@TheUntoldPast]

Hi, this is debatable. There are photographs taken at the time (not in this video) showing Höss having gone through some sort of trapdoor, and fallen through the structure. The method you're referring to was used a lot inside of Polish Prisons for other war criminals, such as Maria Mandl. Thanks for your comment!

[@stevemangino]

Maybe you are thinking about Amon Goeth.

[@regwatson2017]

Based on the photos here it does appear that some sort of stage was constructed but it doesn't seem that high and so maybe unlikely to have broken his neck even if a trapdoor was installed.

[@michaelhearn3052]

@@regwatson2017You do not know if there was a pit dug under the structure to create depth.

[@michaelhearn3052]

There was a trapdoor, this is viewable from google maps and the stool was placed on it. The subsequent pictures taken after the execution, also show this. Also it is possible that there was a pit dug under the trapdoor to give extra depth.

[@renee1961]

Good day, and Thank You for your Important, Informative, and Excellent videos.

[@user-vs7nv8mo4e]

for some reason they never considered that they might lose the war...and be held accountable for their deeds

[@gc4644]

Germans back then were quite arrogant, they mentally deceived themselves into thinking they are the master race and are indefeatable.

[@GertjanZwiggelaar-mo4tz]

Just like Israhell, eh?

[@Ann-mq2te]

They are fanatics. They never thought for a second they would lose. Same with the Japanese. There was a Japanese soldier who was still fighting until the 70s.

[@amryan7571]

JUST DOING YOUR JOB IS NOT AN EXCUSE.

[@Boo-dawg.]

Mass murder isn't a job. It's a demented choice.

[@savagecub]

Same goes for the tsa !!!

[@Kevin-xb8ih]

And American hating Democratic party

[@davidhoward4715]

@@savagecub Go outside and play. Leave the conversation to the adults.

[@savagecub]

@@davidhoward4715 TSA - robot IDIOTS !

[@elisedunstan2080]

His daughter Brigitte Hoess was drop dead gorgeous and modeled for Balenciaga having to hide who her father was. She had to hide who she was since her boss was Jewish. She died in the US in 2023. His youngest child, a Annegret, is still alive as of this writing. She was born in Auswitz and does not remember a lot because she was born in 1943.

[@williamberry8895]

Wow. Thanks for that information. I did not know about that when it came to this guy. And he's a well known Nazi murderer

[@deanpickess1152]

Love all your History Thanks for your hard work 💯

[@amys2650]

My grandfather was in the 82nd airborne 101st. Jumped all over including Dday at Normandy. He came home with a German pistol. He passed away in 1994 and I wish I could have talked with him about his experience more

[@paulmoore120]

Great presentation.Thanks.

[@larry1824]

Ghosts watched his strangle on his own gallows

[@Studley2]

Videos like this infuriate me yet makes me glad that I was not one of the liberators of the camps, I don't think I could control myself and would have committed war crimes against anyone wearing a nazi uniform. Never forget!

[@JohnSmith-rw2yn]

Is this same person referenced in the movie about Nuremburg. Where they get him in to testify about the camp and he says how he was displeased by the process and how he increased "output" and made it more efficient. As an add on he wished to make it clear that his guards did not torture, they were there for a job and if they stepped out of line they would be punished? I think it was the fella who said in the movie, is it wrong for a rat catcher to catch rats. If this is the same guy, awful human, cold in anyway, it's clear from this video that from even secondary school aye he was not phased, orders are orders, a job to be done.

[@steiner554]

Yes it is the same person.

[@bobhill3941]

Watching this spurred me on to watch The zone of interest on him and his wife.

[@gbee29]

His words of sorrow and shame said he became repentant person, he also added that he expects the death penalty and these crime's not be repeated by others, more than what Field Marshall Luftwaffe Erhardt Milch said and he was non-rependant

[@dishybear]

Same as Adolph Eichmann. When caught a priest at the prison asked him if he renounced the evil he had done. He simply answered ****"NO".

[@Occident.]

Confessions gleamed by torture are worthless.

[@velociraptorimperator4299]

Was hoping someone would mention that. Far too many of these less than scholarly "historical videos" are on KZbin with their very questionable subjective assertions going unchallenged.

[@joeyj6808]

I can tell by your avatar, someone hurt you. It's ok, little buddy. You just need a hug, don't you?

[@JohnFitzgerald2008]

@@joeyj6808being anti Soviet Union is good lol. Keep coping commie:

[@TheLeadSled]

The bad part about it all so many escaped justice after committing some of the most horrific crimes. Many concentration camps guards were not held accountable, especially those from other nations like Ukraine. Some of the worst guards with a lot of blood on their hands got away at the end of the second world war, and many lived long lives.

[@kassemlarsen7839]

Enough....

[@thomasmarciano6133]

If you havent already, see the most excellent WW2 ABC tv mini series from the novel by Herman Wouk, "War and Remembrance". Hoess' reprehensible legacy is well recorded and put up on the screen for the viewer to take in...

[@jiffycomer3673]

The whole “ I should have killed my wife and children , spare them suffering “ from a man who did what he did ???? Did he expect sympathy ?

[@malic_zarith]

Understanding the thinking of some of these most evil nazis is like trying to understand the thinking of Jack the Ripper. It's doable, but it's not easy.

[@GertjanZwiggelaar-mo4tz]

Jack was a jew, coo, coo, ka, choo.

[@steiner554]

His autobiography is very interesting! Well worth a read. He wrote it when in prison in Poland before he was hanged.

[@philippetougeron]

You should read the french novel " Death is my trade " of Robert Merle. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Is_My_Trade#:~:text=Death%20Is%20My%20Trade%20is,of%20the%20concentration%20camp%20Auschwitz.

[@stevelarson3391]

He got off way too easy...

[@RobertRoss-ut2pr]

The trouble is it still going on other continents

[@jonathannixon8652]

Im almost certain that this thing of being didn't write ✍🏽 that confession, rather it was dictated to him of what should be said, it doesn't sound like a man of his Evil. † But if im wrong, im wrong. †

[@joegagnon2268]

1:07 wicked snap shot

[@buy.to.let.britain]

he was a cook whos name was mistaken for rudolph hess. poor fellow.

[@melissaphillips7965]

What happened to his family?

[@wixom01]

And there were no tears shed for Rudolph Hoss.

[@joegagnon2268]

14:29 crazy

[@IanKerry-ip6fx]

I don't think he was sorry in the least. I think it was a bid to escape the noose. He was an out and out monster

[@janlindtner305]

👍👍👍

[@davidhyde9310]

The last name is properly pronounced "Hoyss". It is spelled Hoss, with an umlaut accent over the O. In german, that makes the "o" properly pronounced as "eu". Just a small point of clarification.

[@TalibanSymphonyOrchestra]

Well, you are wrong anyway. It is pronounced basically as an e as in chess.

[@county23]

He got off too easy with being hanged.

[@cmasseylynch]

See the film THE ZONE OF INTEREST - RECOMMENDED FILM 2024 a chilling film centered on the HOSS FAMILY - you hear the screams and gunfire next door while the family get on with their cosy life -a sound centered film -

[@kalaevans7361]

Did the citizens get to his wife and children? What was their fate?

[@Raven6794]

They all survived. His wife died in 1989 in the US. She was tried for war crimes but I doubt if she did much time in prison. Most of the families of the leading Nazis who weren’t actually killed in the war survived.

[@amberlopez7477]

@@Raven6794 😊

[@markosterman419]

What type of UK accent do you have?

[@Alan_GA]

Utterly reprehensible how this beast disconnected himself from the horrors he perpetrated on others. Then when caught, reels out a litany of predictable excuses in an attempt to absolve himself. Being sent to the gallows was a "punishment" too kind.

[@elainsmith7711]

and there still trying to get rid of them....

[@amberlopez7477]

😊

[@Stoney1959]

Some of the atrocities mentioned I believe...some I do not.

[@leananglesensor]

This begs the question ,does germany have the highest number of psycopaths per capita?

[@NOT_SURE..]

have you heard of the stanley milgram experiments?

[@jenjen.rutherford8559]

They never did . Japan and Stalin were as bad

[@umbertoalessio5069]

In the last days God touched his soul: Hoss repented and was confessed by a Polish priest whose life he had spared a few years earlier. Glory to God in the highest!

[@Froukjelovesmakeupx]

Unfortunatly God didnt touch his soul while he killed all those innocent children and parents of children and other human beings. God did absolutely nothing to avoid this or to change his mind..

[@umbertoalessio5069]

@@Froukjelovesmakeupx do youn know the Will of God? Anyhow this fact Is well documented, Just search on the net

[@lornestein7248]

I disliked the movie Zone of Interest. I found it irrelevant and disrespectful. Who cares about his domestic life with his family outside the camp, while barely alluding the heinous crimes he was committing on a daily basis.

[@randolphscott3361]

Therefore you completely missed the point of the film.

[@lornestein7248]

@@randolphscott3361 If you think that this premise was interesting to you.. I understand. It wasn't to me. All these murderers had domestic lives.

[@rj33369]

Lol the film is terrifying and very relevant 😅 watch it again bro

[@lornestein7248]

@@rj33369 Nope.. This movie wasn't near the quality of say Schindler's or Son of Saul. It was tedious, boring and frankly insulting to me.

[@lucas82]

Simple-minded fool. The fact that incredibly evil men like Hoss had relatively ordinary family lives aside from being mass murderers is what makes this all the more disturbing. I bet you also disliked Downfall (der Untergang) because it shows Hitler as a human being as well as a deranged dictator. It is the double lives that the Nazi leaders and executioners lived that makes movies like these so important. These were human beings who did unspeakable things to other human beings.

[@Tatteddaddydc]

I'm a 55-year-old American white guy. Growing up in the 1970s, I remember my dad making me watch WW2 Nazi documentaries on TV. And back then, they showed everything on TV. Very disturbing footage on TV for kids to enjoy. That's when "Viewer discretion advised" meant something. I LOVED it!! I wasn't one of those kids whining about my overbearing dad forcing me to watch newsreels on the liberation of concentration camps. All those dead bodies. Ugh. Nazis aren't defeated yet. Remember, Adolf modeled the Nazi regime on the Jim Crow era of the US. Here in the US today, millions worship the orange Mussolini, Trumpf.

[@steiner554]

That's a disgusting comparison and you should be ashamed of yourself. I'm not even American and even I can see that your comparison is not only nonsense but also does HUGE discredit to the millions upon millions who truly suffered under Hitler, Stalin and Musolini during this era.

[@ellobo1326]

Delusional comparison.

[@Tatteddaddydc]

@@ellobo1326 delusional? What comparison???? Moron

[@-donkey_696_]

You say you watched the videos as a kid ,as did I, I'm also 55 and for you to compare Trump to Hitler is absolutely disgusting and delusional

[@Tatteddaddydc]

@@-donkey_696_ ok, domestic terrorist

[@seanfagan8490]

The people you show looks like the Palestinian peoples that are diving in Gaza

[@strongfoot2009]

It is time to talk about the disgusting past of Israel in Palestine and the entire Middle East. Wake up world and face the truth as it is!.

[@musclecarbear4704]

…and yet, look at what is happening in Palestine today.

[@davidhoward4715]

It's because of people like you that Israel exists. If you left the Jews alone they would not have to fight back. But you never will.

[@steiner554]

You mean those jews that have been taken hostage and still not released? That baby? Those women and children? Or do you mean the women who's breasts were shot of while they were still alive by Palestinians on October 7th? Or the men and women who were shot in the crotch while they were still alive? Or that Asian man who the Palestinians tried to beat in half with a gardenhose while alive? Nah, you mean all those Palestinians who watched the recording shown in the p parking lot in front of that wel lit hospital and cheering. Or did you mean the 80% of Palestinians that, according to a poll done by a Palestinian university aged with October 7th and the 90% of Palestinians that support other terrorist groups? Nahhhh I'm sure you mean all those Palestinian hijackers that hijacked airplanes and killed random passengers during the 80's and 90's. Or maybe the killing of that sportsteam during the Olympics by Palestinians? Yeah that must be it. I could be mistaken of course. Could be the Palestinian refugees the Jordans took in and they then tried to take over Jordan resulting in the death of 25.000 people.

[@amberlopez7477]

✡

[@jenjen.rutherford8559]

Too sad .

[@-donkey_696_]

Well if HAMAS didn't fuck around ,they wouldn't be finding out would they remember Hamas broke the cease fire on Oct7

[@Sam-hm2sx]

Who cares!

[@gaylemitchell1237]

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