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Title: Commandant of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess by or better, höss rudolph hoess, Primo Levi, Constantine Fitzgibbon, Rudolf Hoess, Joachim Neugroschel ISBN: 1-84212-024-7 Publisher: Sterling Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Is this the truth or not?
Comment: I'm no revisionist, but the crucial question remains: was this confession faked? The Nuremberg trials were conducted under the auspices of the Allies entirely, and the possibility of unbiased judgement on this issue - then as now - would require something with no knowledge and understanding of human nature. We will never find the truth of what actually happened. "THERE ARE NO FACTS, ONLY INTERPRETATIONS." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Rating: 4
Summary: It's hard to feel sorry for Rudolf
Comment: This was the second book that I had read on Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and like the first book "Death Dealer"; it had my attention up to a point. The chronicle of his childhood and youth were interesting only from the viewpoint of the European mindset of Father and son relationships. His military career and rise in the ss organisation appears to be fueled by his own inner self, in other words; no one forced him to wear the black uniform. That he wanted to be a farmer and enjoy the workings of nature is one thing, becoming a soldier was something else. The experiences in Auschwitz at its inception and afterwards leave little room for sympathy or understanding. Can the dilemma of poor Rudolf having to scrounge his own barbed wire equate to you or I trying to buy something for our own homes? His pathetic laments over the types of "bottom of the barrel" people that he had to work with doesn't wash here. He neglected to mention the dozens of efficient, ruthless barbarians like Joseph Mengele, Otto Moll and Stefan Baretzki of whom Birkenau survivors have a different remembrance. Lastly, the worst omission that the book carries is that Rudolf makes no repentant statement concerning the murder of the Jewish people. His only regret is that the wholesale slaughter besmirched the concept of National Socialism as he saw it! Die-hard follower of Hitler to the end, it would have cost him little to apologize to the Jewish people, and at least show some humanity. I feel that the nazi machine had made Rudolf Hoess into the perfect unfeeling automaton, capable of love only to his own, yet looking on the "untermenschen" as vermin. I recommend this book for any serious student of the Holocaust who desires an insight into the psyche of one of mankind's most horrific murderer's and bureaucrats.
Rating: 4
Summary: Why Read This?
Comment: The autobiography of Rudolf Hoess is the story of a man who would ultimately be in charge of the huge extermination camp at Auschwitz where millions of Jews were systematically murdered.
In its pages you will find an accurate account of the means that were used to isolate those victims, of the political principle that was used to justify the victims' elimination from public life, and of the mental state needed to carry out the order for their deaths. Consequently "this book," as Primo Levi states in his introduction, "is filled with evil."
Even so, the book ought to be read--and read carefully--because an understanding of the ideas that drove Rudolf Hoess to do what he did are a major step towards ensuring that the horrors of Nazi Germany will never happen again.
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Title: Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Dr. Nyiszli ISBN: 1559702028 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont, Lawrence L. Langer ISBN: 0300070578 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the Ss Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoss, Steven Paskuly, Andrew Pollinger, Primo Levi, Rudolph Hoss ISBN: 0306806983 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Into That Darkness : An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny ISBN: 0394710355 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Last of the Just: A Novel by Andre Schwarz-Bart, Stephen Becker ISBN: 1585670162 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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