The IGNORANT Wife Of The Commandant Of Auschwitz

[@keanspivey9803]

After seeing “the zone of interest” I highly doubt she was oblivious to the violence in the camp. I know that’s just a film’s depiction, but the house was next to the walls of the camp. She and the children had to hear the screams of cruelty and gunfire goin on. They must’ve been so normalized to it that it didn’t register. I don’t blame the children, but the wife definitely had to know there was cruelty being unleashed behind those walls. It’s so disturbing to think about!

[@margaretmcgarry]

Zone of Interest is based on fact with artistic licence. No one knows what their everyday lives were. It depicted Herr (Mrs) Hoss as a cold uncaring self absorbed materialist woman.

[@maureengoller3213]

@@margaretmcgarry, it’s Frau Höss, her husband was Herr Höss.

[@keanspivey9803]

@@margaretmcgarry like I said I understand it was just a film’s depiction, so I get artistic license. We don’t know exactly their day to day lives during that time. But, the director said he researched it extensively through testimony and accounts to bring us the closest vision of what that would have been like. And it was very accurate of the close proximity of the house to one of the camps. With that said I stand by my opinion that she wasn’t just oblivious to what was going on behind those walls. She may have compartmentalized it to normalize the circumstance, but I don’t buy that she just had no idea people were being mistreated or dying as a result of her husband’s command over the camp.

[@anllpp]

HOESS: Yes, "secret Reich matter" means that no one was allowed to speak about these matters with any person and that everyone promised upon his life to keep the utmost secrecy. DR. KAUFFMANN: Did you happen to break that promise? HOESS: No, not until the end of 1942. DR. KAUFFMANN: Why do you mention that date? Did you talk to outsiders after that date? HOESS: At the end of 1942 my wife's curiosity was aroused by remarks made by the then Gauleiter of Upper Silesia, regarding happenings in my camp. She asked me whether this was the truth and I admitted that it was. That was my only breach of the promise I had given to the Reichsfáhrer. Otherwise I have never talked about it to anyone else. DR. KAUFFMANN: When did you meet Eichmann? HOESS: I met Eichmann about 4 weeks after having received that order from the Reichsfáhrer. He came to Auschwitz to discuss the

[@MichaelaSchneider-j7o]

Lol, you dont know our history, everybody knows about the Holocaust- crimes

[@grainneowens3035]

Just watched Zone of Interest and pleased thst this issue has been addressed. She absolutely knew mass murder was happening at the end of her garden. Evil. RIP to the victims and prayers for the survivors and all of their families ❤

[@JOHNSmith-pn6fj]

I do not buy for 1 second that she did not know what was going on in the camp. It is also pretty disturbing that her and the children were allowed into the USA as well.

[@joeoliveira8558]

What about the Paper Clip operation? It's all business.

[@jamesnewberry1191]

she and her children ??

[@JOHNSmith-pn6fj]

It was mentioned in the video, so I googled it . She remarried and her, her new husband and the kids moved to the USA. @@jamesnewberry1191

[@antoniafenech8279]

⁠@@joeoliveira8558I don’t think she’d have been on the list as persons that were of value. The US certainly gave asylum to many war criminals deemed valuable to US interests.

[@davidrobertson3930]

I 100% agree with you.

[@gusjackson3658]

When the wind changed direction the locals and his family could smell the burning bodies from the camp’s chimneys. Disgusting inhuman creeps.

[@jimbo43ohara51]

Yes, the banality of evil. Perhaps they had an air freshener or something to remove the smell.

[@nancybrown2609]

Truly evil

[@cathietonkin5577]

Exactly! How can you ‘not’ ask what the order was?? No way would I not have wonder nor not ask!

[@Edith-t4j]

Who told you that bullcrap.

[@gusjackson3658]

@@Edith-t4j Historical records. Not in dispute.

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

If she had spent the war in the countryside of Bavaria, or even in Berlin or Vienna, it would be possible that she knew nothing. Living next door, impossible to be isolated from the reality. With servants in the house, impossible to not know!

[@duanejessup3708]

Yes, she definitely knew

[@gusjackson3658]

Cost free servants that she was free to beat. On what basis did she accept that understanding?

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

@@gusjackson3658 They were slaves, not servants. So she knew, at an absolute minimum, that enslavement was happening. And I simply cannot believe that the evidence of the extermination programme was invisible.

[@mgway4661]

@@danielintheantipodes6741she lived less than 300 meters from Crematoria 1 … She knew..

[@jillianlawrie8618]

She would have herd the screams and shots she knew every thing

[@cyndikluch720]

That woman was just as evil as her husband. Of course she knew.

[@joelhungerford8388]

And you know this from a bias hunch.

[@nigelmorgan3449]

Was she hung next to the husband

[@daleburrell6273]

...SHE DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW- AND NEITHER DID THE REST OF THE PEOPLE IN GERMANY-(!)

[@carmenana4890]

I think she didnt wann know, she repressed that

[@SR-iy4gg]

@@nigelmorgan3449 Did you watch the video?

[@brummie.bill-379.]

Man's inhumanity to man is nearly impossible to comprehend.

[@elcheapo9444]

Germans specifically.

[@briancarton1804]

@@elcheapo9444 Not to forget the treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis.

[@playonkorg]

@@elcheapo9444 Watch the history and shame

[@bulldog1066jpd]

​​@@elcheapo9444 let's not forget the genocide of the native Americans by what was then white Europeans or PolPots Cambodia, or the Japanese "Rape of Nanking" ..... or King Leopold the 2nd Genocide in the Congo free state where 5 to 10 million died and just as many had limbs hacked off with axes or machetes. So not just the Germans

[@MultiSUPERLATIVO]

Animals defend their own species with their lives, sometimes they even do so with animals of other species. We, the so-called "rational" human beings, destroy each other.

[@tombob671]

She had to know this was a place of immense suffering and evil.

[@damonmelendez856]

What about the people who live next to Gitmo?

[@sewbuttns]

Yes and the Israelis who stand outside the walls of Gaza protesting the delivery of food. They know as well.

[@BigLar56321]

@@damonmelendez856What about your whataboutism?

[@BOBBIEVALINTINE]

​@damonmelendez856 didn't know there were ovens or mass graves there. Oh wait there wasn't, it was a black site for the worlds top terrorist scumbags and many housed there had r*pe/murder tribe boys and as well kill civilians for their "cause" and is now closed due to diplomatic ruling. Something the birthplace of the prisoners never heard of.

[@steppy3736]

I suspect she probably discussed ways to exterminate people with her husband.

[@MrMickthemonster]

Ignorant my behind...she knew exactly what was going on

[@cissiepierce664]

I do not believe that Hedwig did not know what was going on! You could smell the ovens for miles and the oily ash settled on everything nearby.

[@trevorjennings720]

Hello Cissie, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@Britton_Thompson]

If you don't what cremation smells like though, is it not possible to not know what you're smelling? The real house wasn't as close as the one in Zone of Interest. The real house was a couple miles away in actuality. It wasn't right up against the camp like in the movie because if there was ever a jailbreak, the commandant would be in danger. There were layers of defense around it such as minefields, MG nests, and trees blocking it from looking in. Have you ever seen a warden build a house right beside the prison he supervises? Of course not. It's unsafe from a design sensibility. Zone of Interest is a movie. It's not undisputed historical fact simply because so much of the Holocaust was covered up by the Germans, and survivors were few. There's still a lot we don't know about it actually. Even the gas chambers you can visit on the Auschwitz tour today were reconstructed because the SS dynamited the real ones before the Soviets liberated it in January 1945.

[@dhouse-d5l]

Their grandson who now speaks on this terrible matter said that his parents would go fetch strawberries from the garden but would have to dust off human ash before eating...She knew, she knew everything.

[@saraf9081]

How sad and yes she knew

[@mariec3527]

😮 wtf !!

[@helenheeney2284]

What a complete waste of space to humanity she was

[@ericelias2185]

Gross

[@zsuzsamold]

Oh my God what a horrible burden to carry!😭

[@arnoldgreenwood2969]

Agree that it was ludicrous she knew nothing about her husbands involvement in the atrocious goings on outside her front door. It was many, many times worse than Belsen, which I believe the disgusting, foul aroma, emanating from the camp, could be almost overpowering in Celle a town 23 kilometres away!!

[@cunard61]

This horrific place was burning bodies in four different crematoria, by the thousands at a time. Anyone who's smelled a burning body never forgets the indescribable smell. The trains, entering on a daily basis, brought in thousands of new victims each day. There was no way she didn't know what was going on.

[@DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn]

Those burnings were 3 miles away.

[@wanderingwarrior5626]

Most people are not interested in real history, or history at all. 'History is but a fable. Agreed upon lies written by the victors' Napoleon Bonaparte

[@cunard61]

@@DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn You'll smell hundreds of burning bodies for a much greater distance than 3 miles. I can assure you, the smell is unforgettable.

[@kuntakinte4333]

In Birkenau they burnt masses of corpses under the free sky..

[@ottogarsber]

Das konnte man in den ausgebombten deutschen Städte jeden Tag riechen! Besonders in Dresden! Das war eines der größten Verbrechen der Menschheit!

[@woodmason]

I have visited Auschwitz. It was a place of unbelievable horrors.

[@AnnHollowell-w8w]

❤🙏😢 May all of the victims rest in peace ❤

[@TariAkpodiete]

I have heard that there is a 'weight' to the place that one can actually feel

[@MezzaLoey]

I don’t think I would want to visit Aushwitz.

[@ginaryan4957]

Yes, and we must never forget…it’s beyond the pits of hell what went on in these camps.

[@mvnorsel6354]

I visited, the horrors were groups of Israeli youths carrying on being noisy and disruptive.

[@Montana_horseman]

It would be one thing for her to claim she never "saw anything" but in my mind I wonder how you could not "hear anything" with the kinds of physical and emotional torment taking place there.

[@thelocalartisanguide7937]

There is a movie out now, The Zone of Interest that show she definitely knew what was going on.

[@Montana_horseman]

@@thelocalartisanguide7937 Thanks, that is on my future viewing radar now. 👍

[@philipnestor5034]

Or smell it too.

[@darrellcaraway6068]

Si c k

[@renee1961]

Rest In Peace to The Innocent Victims, and Those that Fought for Them.🥀🥀🥀🥀🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ Prayers The Survivors found Peace 💔💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@AnnHollowell-w8w]

Yes indeed 🙏❤

[@nomadsteve5297]

Can you even imagine the amount of prayers that were made by the six million people that were killed, and not once did your God step in to help, You can stick your prayers up your own backside

[@PamiShoodrani]

You do realize that there were prayers during and even before concentration camps, right? What good did prayers do then? Answer: None at all.

[@aladd646]

There is NO FREAKING way she didn't know. She was in no position to alter any of it. But she knew and gave tacit approval. It was after all her husband. But to say she did not know is ludicrous.

[@debbylou5729]

Just watch ‘the Boy in the Striped Pajamas’. At least learn something before you rant

[@sallysowers7305]

Things were a lot different than women did not know a lot and did what they was told

[@RasheedGazzi-u5l]

​@@sallysowers7305She knew but what could she do?

[@MrMickthemonster]

Exactly.. I mean the skies over the streets of Krakow were full of ash .. ash rained down on everything and if the average Joe citizen knew what that was there's not an ice creams chance in hell that his wife was in the dark

[@zimonslot]

She lived NEXT DOOR to Auschwitz for fuck sake

[@jamesdavis700]

How could she not know? She knew.

[@DonnaAbrams-qh7zt]

I visited Dachau in the early eighties and the town was close enough to see the trains and smell the burning bodies. There is no way anyone living a fence away from Auschwitz didn’t know what was happening.

[@mysikind8076]

Willfully ignorant.

[@juliedepaolo9971]

My great grandmother was deported from Berlin in late 1939 and died in that concentration camp. My great grandfather died at Dachau. I see where she spent her last days.

[@MsVivi66]

I'm so sorry 😢 ❤

[@TRIChuckles]

I too am so sorry

[@jezebelrebel250]

I'm truly sorry

[@kazneasham9110]

How so so sad and disgusting. 😢 My family are from Germany and never eve

[@kazneasham9110]

My god 😢 many German people were unaware I have a tale from my late Oma which to this day sends a shiver down my spine 😢😢😢😢😢

[@neilewart4347]

Of course she knew that terrible things were happening virtually on her door step. The Nazis were unspeakably ghastly but we also must remember it all goes on today in different ways and perpetrated by today's generations in so many places.

[@michaelobgy]

The whole German 🇩🇪 people knew tbh! The were seig heiling Hitler from the begging!!! What happened to those? They suddenly became democratic persons in 3 years??? Also it s worth while to know who gave hitler the money to build his SS and army? In the 1920s they were starving to death ! How is it possible in 5-6 years the build the finest army and conquered Europe in 6 months????😂😂😂 if you want to study history you need to dig deep!!

[@mikepaleocrassas3250]

She and her children were allowed in the US? My goodness what else are we going to learn?

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

They let Braun in as well, to get a head start on rocket technology.

[@donaldlyons17]

@@danielintheantipodes6741 yeah!!! None of any of those people including the US people are good!!!!

[@philipskalla4312]

That an entire SS division was given sanctuary in Great Britain, courtesy of one Christopher Mayhew, whose job it was to vet any would-be immigrants for participation in war crimes.

[@jimmyhaley727]

NEVER,, LOOK AT OUR BORDERS,,,,, NO WALLS

[@janroach1852]

@@danielintheantipodes6741 Yes but this women was not a rocket scientist and did not offer value to the military, as Braun did. There was every reason to deny her entry. Unless she made a deal with the authorities for telling them where her husband was hiding out.

[@gc4644]

Oh Hedwig knew what was going on in that camp, she knew exactly what was going on in that deplorable camp. Just like the nearby villagers, they all conviently claimed ignorance as well, which also was complete BS!

[@johnhickton7944]

Just like the jews/zionists know exactly what is happening to the Palestinians in Gaza! Your hypocrisy is beyond belief.

[@TerryLestrange]

Maybe she knew. But we also knew it was needed what happend.

[@Angela-382]

Yes of course she did. I can't imagine she'd be saying " oh darling, where is all the smoke coming from, and what's that terrible smell we're nearly choking on?" Bizzare that she had no punishment whatsoever. Now I want to know what happened to their children.

[@daviddoran3673]

Some years ago an author called DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN caused consternation when he published a book proving conclusively that EVERY German knew.....

[@iowahank1]

I know Nuthing - Sgt Schulz

[@katjagolden893]

Survivors of the camp said you could hear people screaming as they died in the gas chambers. The stench was bad from the burning of bodies from the crematorium . I visited Auschwitz in 1997, the homeland of my grandparents. You could see claw marks that were on the walls. It was so sad & awful humans could do this to one another.

[@Muddy283]

Some time ago now, I met a man, Jock, who was one of the first British soldiers to enter and liberate Auschwitz. It was clear that he was deeply scarred by that experience. He particularly mentioned the stench of the burning bodies that lingered in the camp and could be smelt miles away. He said it was a smell he would never forget.

[@mathiasbartl903]

​@@Muddy283Auschwitz would have been the Red Army. Maybe you confuse it with Bergen Belsen.

[@FayBeth]

Baruch Dayan HaEmet...

[@Muddy283]

@@mathiasbartl903 I'm really sorry. You're right. It was Belsen. But wow, my conversation with him still haunts me, even some 40 years later.

[@katjagolden893]

@@mathiasbartl903 - thank you. I wasn’t going to correct him bc I thought he meant when British troops got there after the So It’s did. Not sure it they did but yes, you are correct , Soviets got there first

[@Disco-Mike]

I think her story influenced "The boy in the striped pijama" pretty much. But of course, she knew what was happening. Maybe not the killings, but she definitely knew that something very wrong was happening there.

[@daydays12]

Indeed. It was based on this.

[@WendiintoancientHistory]

Omg. That movie made me bawl. Very well done.

[@vadouis-rt3of]

No. The fact the Franz Stangl's wife was told by a drunk SS man revealed how she felt about her husband being the one in charge at Treblinka (or possibly Sobibor-he was in charge of both-not at the same time). She cried and refused to have relations with him knowing what he did. Franz Reichlietner (a deputy commander) reassured her that her husband had nothing to do with killings, just making sure the Jew's valuables made it to Berlin. That was the basis for the scene in the movie "The Boy In The Stryped Pyjama." See also "Into That Darknss" by Gitta Sereny, who interviewed Franz Stangl after his trial in 1970.

[@leonardhirtle3645]

Thank you for keeping the horrors of the nazis death camps fresh in peoples minds. May we never forget them and tell future generations what terrible things humans are capable of.

[@footrot17]

Commies did worse

[@christophercook723]

Not Nazi. German.

[@maggielandow2686]

The way our world is right now I think people have forgotten and our youth know nothing of history. It is disgusting.

[@daleburrell6273]

@@christophercook723 ...NOT ALL NAZIS WERE GERMANS- AND VICE VERSA...

[@dianewolfthal704]

@@christophercook723 Not all Germans. There was a heroic minority who resisted.

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

Can't finish this. I'm literally sickened. I just can't. I know it needs to be documented and remembered. Monsters. The evil. The inhumanity. Hundreds of thousands and millions!! How can a person be sunk so low? That is was a job?? I can't and won't try to comprehend.

[@ariadams3290]

It was all just pure evil...and the sad thing is that anti-Semitism is still so prevalent and utterly sick...I listen to such horrible things people say about my family every day...they are just ignorant - mind-numbingly stupid

[@derrelljackson23]

I feel what your saying and understand but there’s prison all across America and the world with human right problems (example) the 1 in Mississippi that was just in the news…. First thing all guards and warden said was I’m just doing my job so my point is people are easily brainwashed especially when the law is on they side 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@ottogarsber]

Die Verbrechen die auf den Rheinwiesen passiert sind, blieben ungesühnt! Waren die Alliierten!

[@ACAjc152]

Ask what they did to slaves for 400 years

[@kittymervine6115]

one of the children, spoke about how her mother would go to shop at the "Jewish shops", where the Jews had to sell their goods, including fur coats and jewelry at really low prices. Her mother thought it was a great thing, bargains. Also the child remembered the Jews that would work in the garden and keep the place looking nice. If a child could remember all this, and she seems a very intelligent woman, she must have known. But if you don't see Jews as humans, you can be a good mother and yet also support the death of Jews. That her own children were allowed to beat "servants", that alone shows the mother did not consider the Jews "human". No one beat their servants, not in the 1940's. I hope she learned that what her husband did was very very wrong, and I do hope most of all her children accepted what their father had done and grew up to accept a more kind and humane life.

[@ireminsel]

Of course she knew.

[@saraf9081]

Seems like the children were also evil by beating servants

[@enzl4493]

@@saraf9081that’s a dumb thing to say

[@sarapanzarella97]

We need these videos to educate the younger generations. Shocked at the rise of antisemitism right now. I used to read so many books about the holocaust - my favorite author was Corrie ten Boom. So scary that as a society we seem to be moving backwards. If we ever even moved forward.

[@MsVivi66]

I watched a video by a German woman who said that ww2, is a daily lesson in schools all the way until Graduation. It's in every subject, Religion, History,

[@andyw8984]

Its incomprehensible to me that I’m seeing it in my own lifetime. 😢 when I learned about these atrocities growing up I could not understand how ordinary people could be co-opted into going along with it. Horrifically now we are seeing just how it unfolds, with so many ignorant and cruel people perpetuating antisemitic lies and hatred. My grandmother like many other Londoners, survived the Blitz and my grandfather served in the RAF and I feel so sad that todays youth don’t value and respect what that generation sacrificed for us. I feel strongly now that is up to my generation who learned the awful truth to educate the young.

[@yellojelloman]

damit muss endlich Schluss sein.Schluss mit der Schuldkultur.Es gibt Staaten die feiern ihre Verbrechen bis heute noch

[@georgedobler7490]

Impossible to know what she did or didn’t know. Cremation smoke is distinctive and impossible to miss or ignore.

[@nunyabiznez6381]

I used to work at a crematorium. I can't say anything about the layout or geography of the camps. What I can tell you is that it only takes a few weeks to become completely desensitized to the smell of a crematorium. After about two months I could not smell it any more. We had a four oven facility. So that's four stacks. We were very busy so that was probably around 8-15 bodies per day. You can't smell it from 500 feet away at that volume. From 1000 feet you would not be able to smell 100 bodies per day and from half a mile you would not be able to smell 1000 bodies per day. That's just a reference point to consider. And that is if you've never been to a crematorium and are not used to the smell. If they started a small number of bodies from say 300 feet and gradually ramped up production to thousands per day it is conceivable that she never noticed the smell. You and even I, walking past within 100 feet would definitely notice thousands per day. So a lot would depend on how far she was and if they suddenly started burning thousands per day of if they gradually increased and it was further away from her home. I would suggest looking at the layout of the camp and how far their home actually was from the crematoria smoke stacks and that should give you some insight as to whether she could smell it. All that said, even without smelling anything, she had to know horrors were going on in the camp and her husband was in charge. But as a devout anti Semite it is likely she either didn't care what happened or knew and was happy about it. I have personally witnessed the face of seething hatred and such people don't actually consider those they hate to be human beings. They demonize them to the point that seeing one die is no more significant to them than seeing a fly being swatted. It's frightening to witness.

[@davey8914]

Take a look at the Commandant's house on Google Earth - it is completely intact and is DIRECTLY next to the death camp and shares a wall. The layout portrayed in The Zone of Interest is accurate. There is no way she could not have known the processes inside the camp - the screams, the cries for mercy, the children wailing, execution gunshots, barking dogs, burning, gassing, the human remains washing through the river 50 metres from her house, the ash blowing through the air and settling on her clothes on the washing line in the pretty garden - a garden fertilised using human ashes. She was utterly complicit.

[@lindacosta5688]

She knew. And she approved!

[@leahp1765]

Don't put words in mouth

[@lindacosta5688]

@@leahp1765 I’ll do what I want.

[@leahp1765]

@@lindacosta5688 baring false witness is a 10 commandments no no. Or do you believe yourself above the law of truth?

[@lindacosta5688]

@@leahp1765 I have my opinion and you have yours. Most wives of Nazis approved of what their husbands did and they remained loyal Nazis to the end. Read a history book.

[@MartinTyler-m2k]

You said that they were executed, that’s a poor choice of words as they were murdered!

[@wr1120]

I do see the trees in front of the house but I also see a lot of windows at the second floor from which you have a clear view on the camp. Maybe the camp buildings were blocking the view on what was really going on in the camp. But I must say that an awful lot of Germans after the war suffered from acute amnesia so it's not surprising that the wife claimed not to have known anything.

[@dreamcatcher54taurus66]

Not just many Germans suffered “amnesia“. Some like to think that it was just the Germans, but it was people all over Europe and the US that turned the blind eye and/or helped the Nazis. I’m sure there were also many who felt powerless to do anything for fear that their families would be taken off to the camps.

[@tuvia4082]

Sounds like . . . . . . she knew . . . and when the shite hit the fan . . . . "I know nothing, I saw nothing".

[@michaeldebidart]

What's with . . . . all the . . . . . .dots

[@genepatterson4375]

She was just like Sgt Schultz in Hogans Hero’s

[@donnaboisen6003]

@@michaeldebidart someone felt artistic.

[@Alexynr]

Why was that woman allowed to breath the same air normal humans and she was allowed to move to America Really!!

[@leahp1765]

Fear is a strong motivation. That's why laughing is important at letting fears go so to move. Say it with me. It helps you change perspective

[@stephenluke2347]

Before I listened to this I had been reading a book of fiction where the main character was the only daughter of the commandant of Auschwitz who escaped to Paris at the end of the war and her life after that, suffering guilt for what she knew.

[@imalrockme]

The biggest part of fiction is the "suffering guilt for what she knew". In reality, Brigitte went to Spain, became a model for Balenciaga, married a rich Irish American man and lived a comfortable life in Virginia U.S: where she took her mother! Yes, the 'ignorant' wife, subject of this video. And, at end, interviewed by The Washington Post, she questioned the nunmbers of deaths, saying "how could there be so many victims, if so many survived" ???!!! That is the argument of a hatefull person, very much like her father and trying to excuse him. Lacking any login, just like hatefull people usually are.

[@renee1961]

Good evening, and Thank You for your Important,Well Done videos.

[@renee1961]

I wonder what the daughter born in Auschwitz felt, when she learned about where she was born?

[@sanjeevkumar-fo1kl]

It's miracle that she survived..... in that Hell

[@elainegoad9777]

Babies don't choose where to be born.

[@hellogoodbye5216]

​@@sanjeevkumar-fo1klyour confusing this babies birth with an inmate this was a nazi child born in the ss quarters

[@johnstirling6597]

She survived the war and in about 1950 met and married an American service man and lived out her life in suburban USA. To the end of her days she defended and admired her father saying on many occasions he was a wonderful father, there are interviews available on you tube with her.

[@norberttietjen6506]

@@johnstirling6597, ? ?? . The daughter who was born in Auschwitz was around 7 years old by 1950 .

[@lewisner]

5.36 you can easily see one of the camp buildings from the villa and in the previous photo you can see the characteristic curved concrete pole for the electrified fence.

[@tonibarrone854]

She knew! What about the sounds and smells?

[@alexcampiao]

Just saw, in Luxembourg (a small country in Europe), a movie called "The zone of interest". Synopsis : The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. See it, if you can.

[@billashby7858]

One strange fact about Rudolf Hoss, he was a animal lover and would not tolerate the mistreatment of them!

[@gc4644]

Only a deplorable nazi would put the life of a dog over a human being..

[@kittymervine6115]

the whole she allowed her children to beat the servants. She knew they weren't servants. You didn't beat servants. She knew they were slaves. And beating anyone, and teaching your children that is fine, is not being a good mother.

[@miketaverner4451]

Hitler loved is dog to

[@ladycplum]

So was sHitler.

[@bettyhudson979]

AND ‼️

[@cordeliamorgan8931]

She DID know. When she would ask one of the children to pick strawberries from the garden she would tell them to be sure to rinse them off as she knew they would be covered with ash from the crematorium. Plus there was a gate from the garden which opened up to the camp.

[@regu6582]

The smell alone would be a sure sign.

[@runningrabbit11]

The Zone of Interest The bureaucratic banality of evil.

[@renee1961]

I don't see how she couldn't not know!! She Had to know!!

[@trevorjennings720]

Hello Renee, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@LeeHoneycutt]

The smells coupled with the noises, were inescapable. Denial is a very strong coping mechanism.

[@jayceew.rabbit9358]

Seeing this footage, it always breaks my heart seeing that woman in her bunk shaking with pure terror petrified with fear! This was literally Hell to these people! The Nazis will have to answer to God about all this at the seat of judgement!

[@jayceew.rabbit9358]

@@floatpool8307 of course! If they repented and accepted Christ as their savior, then of course they'll be forgiven! But those that didn't will have to answer, we will all have to stand before God when our time comes!

[@jayceew.rabbit9358]

@@floatpool8307 of course! If they repented and accepted Christ as their savior, then of course they'll be forgiven! But those that didn't will have to answer, we will all have to stand before God when our time comes!

[@foxgloverose4788]

@@jayceew.rabbit9358​​⁠Thre is no forgiveness for such monstrous acts. If your god would forgive such things then there is something wrong with your sick god.

[@jayceew.rabbit9358]

@@foxgloverose4788 it says in the bible that the only unforgiven sin is blasphemy of denying Christ! I have to admit I do not understand everything about God, but he is to forgive all sin if they repent and truly turn away from sin and live for Christ! Look at Paul in the Bible, he murdered Christians and was an unrighteous man, but he turned to Christ and became a Godly man. Be thankful he is just to forgive our sins if we repent and ask him! We all deserve Hell, but Jesus took our place so that we may have eternal life in Heaven if we accept his gift of salvation!

[@leahp1765]

True

[@patrickclune3600]

I don’t believe that she didn’t know what was going on. I guess the only thing good about Rudolph was that he loved animals, that’s it

[@maryfreebed9886]

Also I was told that the camps smelled like what they were, so she'd have an idea of what was going on just because of that.

[@joelhungerford8388]

​@maryfreebed9886 so you assume she knows what burnt human smells like

[@maryfreebed9886]

@@joelhungerford8388 Not at first, but considering it's certainly not a restaurant and they aren't cooking mass quantities of edible meat, that might be a conclusion to draw, especially if her husband commented on what he did all day at all.

[@nickbanfield909]

All the Germans knew .

[@beet74]

No, many did not. The SS tried and succeeded in hiding the murders to much of Germany. They were truly monsters

[@BrandonYusufToropov]

The actress nails her complicity, which is impossible to escape. The movie is about NOW much more than it is about the 1940s. Yet at the same time it is a potent historical statement about the reality of the intricate, obscene human decisions and collaborations that made the death camps possible. Hedwig's are terrifying.

[@seastar3611]

It's disgusting that she came to America and re-married. She knew.

[@saffloweroyl3663]

Thanks!

[@johncitizen3927]

IF NOTHING ELSE, YOU COULD SMELL IT......

[@H4CK61]

Of course she knew what was going on but typical women lives the life of a queen and then when it goes bad throws the husband under a bus to save its own neck. Imagine my shock NOT.

[@Alan_GA]

Bang on!!! There's no way she couldn't know that the atmosphere around the confines of the villa was engulfed by the negative energy of human suffering & death. Women have a way of deliberately ignoring suffering around them, if the needs of their children & themselves are catered to. Moreso if those needs are provided in a luxurious setting.

[@jacobgill4808]

Yes but if you were Rudolph us would you not tell your wife to do and say the same things to protect yourself to protect the woman you love

[@choedesigns]

No. Golddiggers will do that. Normal women will not.

[@andyw8984]

In the Zone of Interest film, her character refers to herself as being called the ‘queen of Auschwitz’.

[@EYGGROUP.]

it must have stunk to high heaven ... According to witness statements you could smell the burning of bodies from several miles away. A fine ash fell like snow for miles around the camp.

[@dhouse-d5l]

Hell on earth...the Nazis made it happen...mind boggling.

[@llibressal]

You could smell it for miles. ....She knew.

[@keithdonovan5236]

wow, heavy duty. good background to Zone of Interest

[@joannereeves4121]

The horrors are beyond reasonable reasoning, and if this world does not stop right now, it can happen again. The wife knew exactly what was happening, I don't care what anyone says, she KNEW!

[@trevorjennings720]

Hello Joanne, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@kennethprice5628]

I visited Aushwitz as a 12 yo, I had nightmares for months....

[@margaretmcgarry]

12 is too young for a child to visit . A killing field of mass proportions. I wouldn’t approve of a child visiting

[@alisterfolson]

The movie Zone of Interest was something. However, I'm looking for a lava lamp and a can of Hiptang. New sub

[@TheChadWork2001]

If anyone thinks this female didn't know what was going on that person is a fool. And look what she did: she betrayed her man and saved herself.

[@TheChadWork2001]

@@floatpool8307 Thanks for your testimony brother.

[@RasheedGazzi-u5l]

​@@floatpool8307I agree with you mostly. My mother knew my father made his living from criminal activities but she didn't know the ins and outs of his business and she didn't want to know. Hell I didn't know what he did until I was 16. I thought he worked in a barber shop but just never cut hair.

[@jeffreyval9665]

He was already a dead man b4 the trial. Who cares what she did?? It's not like she was gonna be able to do anything about it. How stupid are you people??

[@mariorossi4050]

in first you dont know what type of relation they had. in second many thing are hidding in family overall on criminal affairs. third, maybe really didn t know nothing, but to not have suspect this is impossible, and here enter in game the first point, and about this we don t know nothing about their family relation.. he was kindly, love his children and more and in situation like this is difficult to ask because the answer will be... today has been an hard day, much work to do...and so on.

[@JudyFord-fm6ju]

Steven Spielberg made a movie about these atrocities in a film that I can’t remember the title of. It showed the prisoners arriving at these death camps in cattle trucks and being able to see smoke and flames coming from tall chimneys which must have filled them full of fear. By seeing these things they must have known that this was the end of the road for them. Steven said it was a story that needed to be told. Well done Steven. 😢

[@peter494]

Their house is near Auschwitz 1 camp. Birkenau, where the gas chambers and huge crematoria were situated is approximately 2 kilometres away. So it's a bit simplistic to say she must have known because of the chimneys. But,anyway she may have known earlier, but people can block things out of their minds.

[@Endemion01]

See no evil, hear lots of evil.

[@tatata1543]

She was as evil as him.

[@MaryCoster-Mullen]

How did she end up in America? Why was she allowed to immigrate here?

[@trevorjennings720]

Hello Mary, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@leahp1765]

@@MaryCoster-Mullen what do jews own America? If not committing a crime let them be. My goodness your thirst for blood is annoying.

[@peteacher52]

It knew exactly what was happening in the camp unless it believed that the stench from the crematoria chimneys came from incinerating rubbish. Its husband would not have come home every single night smelling squeaky clean.

[@annette325]

The camp was RIGHT THERE. Of course, she knew.

[@trevorjennings720]

Hello Annette, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@elcheapo9444]

Germany produced a ton of evil monsters who were peerless in human history.

[@tropifiori]

Read about the Japanese atrocities- also appalling

[@ACAjc152]

They are not friendly till today

[@jokodihaynes419]

"IGNORANCE is bliss"-unknown

[@inesborstel5592]

Thanks!! 👍

[@phoebevanderhorst7760]

She knew. The sky was red. The smell of burning flesh permeated the country side.

[@3rdFloorblog]

It is very difficult to believe the wife was oblivious to the horrors right next door at her own husband's hands. However, I rest assured that she will have to face judgement from God, and He alone will judge her for her actions and morality.

[@briancarton1804]

Which God ? Zeus , Thor or perhaps Odin?

[@jplegault1785]

Maybe the same God that stood idle while his chosen people prayed for salvation.

[@jeffreyknight3884]

Bingo, that's what say too.

[@jeffreyknight3884]

There's only one god so you idiots putting your stupid comments will also be judged by almighty God. You leave comments here but it will be judged.

[@JesterEric]

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying "I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves." And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!" They cursed themselves

[@metronorthwtrain1452]

Sounds oddly familiar to the citizens around the camps that were "surprised" what was going on.

[@Green1Chaos]

Having watched films like "The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas," "Schindler's List," "Sophie's Choice," they do show what happens with children of SS and spouse. Though in Elsa's case, she had no knowledge and found out through one her husband's men. It's not until a smell is felt in the air close to the air that something takes notice.

[@vadouis-rt3of]

Those movies do not come even close to what happened to those victims. No movie could ever depict an SS animal like Otto Moll or Erich Mushfeldt or Gustave Wagner throwing a baby or young child alive into the crematoria or burning pit of fire. Or throwing a live, screaming baby into the air and catching it on a bayonet. How could one witness that and not feel outraged and yell out "Murderer!" And yet their SS comrades said nothing!

[@henrybostick5167]

How this woman could possibly live with herself is beyond explanation. 🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇲

[@nathanworthington4451]

Same as it is now. You're a criminal if you do it, you're a victim if you profit from it.

[@rdbjr52]

Yeah, but your only a criminal if you get caught

[@nathanworthington4451]

@@rdbjr52 yeah no sh*t. Brilliant conclusion fktrd.

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

The wife knew everything

[@elainegoad9777]

You can't see the camp but certainly see the smoke and horrible smell of the crematoriums !

[@trevorjennings720]

Hello Elaine, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??

[@paneko1]

The brilliant film The Zone of Interest showed perfectly the pure evil of banal and boring life of those monsters, uncapable of any real feelings or perception of reality.

[@geoffyp71]

They were slaves not "servants"

[@philonetic321]

Well, to be technically correct, it was forced servitude. Slavery is where you are owned property.

[@markhellman-pn3hn]

i saw a video of the train engineer interview (before KZbin banned it) ... he had a look in his eyes, like he had seen hell !! ... anyway, he was powerless to stop it - much the same way SHE was powerless to stop it !!! ... her lies are her self denial

[@floraposteschild4184]

The train engineer could have quit, as could anyone who worked there. No one, except the prisoners of course, were forced to stay at that assignment.

[@pogosmama1]

I live in a city of 50K spread out over square miles. I can see with my own eyes what goes on in town, and their villa was RIGHT THERE. Of course she knew.

[@robertsmale3714]

The ash & smell would have not been ignorable. I highly doubt she didn’t know. Of course she knew, but she simply denied what was occurring next door to her.

[@willarddevoe5893]

...like HFF "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas".

[@paulsturges5517]

Same as Rascida Tlaib didn’t know Hamas blew up their own hospital and beheaded babies. She should find the same fate awaited her.

[@Christian-rj2yc]

Didn't they use the second floor? It towers above the walls and hedges.....

[@mayvgilav1540]

Les mots ne sont pas assez puissants pour décrire l'inconscience et l'inhumanité de ces personnes. Comme c'est facile à dire, ''je ne savais pas''!

[@mgcocasal]

And what could she do about it?

[@kevindarroch7332]

Thank you. Please do a story about people like Pierre Trudeau and too many Francophones and some in the Roman Catholic Church out of Canada who were Nazi symps. WE also need to know more about what the Japanese did.

[@Ammer23]

I just saw the film Zone of interest. Which gives a morbid view of the Höss family, especially his wife. She knew. Came here for some context, almost can not believe she lived peacefull till 1989 in the United States of all places

[@imalrockme]

Unfortunately, it's not surprising: a country that comited genocide against native Americans, where POC were only given general and garanteed right to vote in the 1970's, where George Floyd, with a crinminal record for bad checks, was asfixiated by a cop, while in handcuffs, while being filmed, in the 21st century. Sounds like Nazi haven to me.

[@ppgedez]

The book he wrote after his capture is really a chilling read

[@cor-z8m]

How did that woman get to America???

[@Greenhouse_Co.]

So Zone of Interest DIDN’T exaggerate? Terrifying. I wonder what happened to the kids

[@etubrutus3501]

What would be the point of her admitting that she knew what was going on. She would’ve been powerless to do anything about it.

[@humblehombre9904]

Believe ANY and ALL the NONSENSE you choose. The truth is truth. There was MORE than a few wives, who helped curtail the deeds of husbands just by giving sadness and coldness to the husband. There are also wives who bolstered the evil in their husbands, helping them beyond the threshold he was willing to venture. Men and wives used to be a team, for good, AND EVIL! This woman, was pure evil. But, there is the judgement day coming.

[@wr1120]

I'm not even sure they could indict her on anything even if she had admitted it. Under normal circumstances you would require her to report it to the police but in Germany that would have been futile for obvious reasons.

[@shutup2751]

doesn't matter, if she knew she is an accesory after the fact

[@Because-rt8qs]

Then what's the point of NOT admitting it? She'd just be admitting to knowing something she couldn't control. What would be the big deal?

[@leahp1765]

@@Because-rt8qs because now you just harassing someone who didn't sign the documents or put people in the camps and she could have. The are nazis females camp guards so again. You are off. If she wanted to she could have been a nazi camp guard if your Claim of her being so guilty and into it. Females nazi guards existed and were killed so.....

[@5bags]

If you like gardening then zone of interest is a must watch

[@dotgrindley3350]

It's fine for people to critisize about what they knew or didn't know. Please tell me what a small town or village could do against the entire Nazi regime. They would have been the next inmates. Nobody who didn't live through it has any right to condemn or critisize. None of us know what we would do

[@bus.da.rhymes.1866]

The danger of denial.

[@jeffreybaier5312]

It's much more complicated than we know. You were part of it, or you ended in a concentration camp.