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irisblue

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Fri Oct 18, 2019, 08:37 AM Oct 2019

Photos from Richard Baer, Commandment of Auschwitz, May44-Jan 45

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Photos from Richard Baer, Commandment of Auschwitz, May44-Jan 45 (Original Post) irisblue Oct 2019 OP
Hiding in No. Virginia, Brigitte, Daughter of Rudolf Hoess, Auschwitz Commandant appalachiablue Oct 2019 #1
Thank you for posting that, I'm sure that I would never have seen it irisblue Oct 2019 #3
For sure, an incredible story. I never knew about it until I saw this appalachiablue Oct 2019 #4
Highly recommended Moral Compass Oct 2019 #2

appalachiablue

(41,056 posts)
4. For sure, an incredible story. I never knew about it until I saw this
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:24 AM
Oct 2019

piece posted here c. 2016. The DC dress shop Brigitte worked in many years, I think I know it. Unbelievable.

*Brigitte no doubt acquired her fashion taste from her mother Hedwig Hoess. MORE:

Dressmakers for the Nazis at Auschwitz,
https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/sewing-for-the-nazis-who-were-the-dressmakers-of-auschwitz/

Moral Compass

(1,498 posts)
2. Highly recommended
Fri Oct 18, 2019, 10:28 AM
Oct 2019

I spent a decade or so fascinated with The Holocaust. I read everything there was at the time—including Hoess’s memoir/biography.

I was looking for some insight, some clue as to how an evil this enormous could have been committed.

What I found was a tapestry of ordinariness. A bureaucratizarion of extermination. Only Mengele stood out as actively evil. The rest were just doing their jobs—plodding through their days—trying to not perceive the horrors in which they were utterly complicit.

This was the most stunning realization—that ordinary men and women—when swallowed by the machinery of evil would dutifully carry out their tasks—even if that was to kill their fellow humans.

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