Photos from Richard Baer, Commandment of Auschwitz, May44-Jan 45
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(32,829 posts)appalachiablue
(41,056 posts)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/
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(1,498 posts)I spent a decade or so fascinated with The Holocaust. I read everything there was at the timeincluding Hoesss 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 jobsplodding through their daystrying to not perceive the horrors in which they were utterly complicit.
This was the most stunning realizationthat ordinary men and womenwhen swallowed by the machinery of evil would dutifully carry out their taskseven if that was to kill their fellow humans.