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“Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.”

Quote by Rudolf Hoss

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Rudolf Hoss

Rudolf Hoss (November 25, 1900 – April 16, 1947) was a German SS officer and commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He played a key role in the Holocaust, overseeing the mass murder of over one million people, primarily Jews, through the use of gas chambers and other methods. After the war, he testified at the Nuremberg trials and was executed by hanging in 1947 in Poland. more

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“One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.”