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In his own words - a vivid, horrific, and unflinching look into the mind of the Auschwitz commandant While awaiting execution after the war, Rudolf Hoess - the reviled SS commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp - wrote a lengthy account of his life and what some might call his approaches to management. Amoral, self-serving, and utterly without remorse, his words are still almost beyond belief today, Now, acclaimed writer Jürg Amann has distilled Hoess's memoir into an illuminating new work. The Commandant is a book Hoess would certainly not have approved - a chilling insight into Hitler's final Solution and the nature of evil itself. Ian Buruma's incisive afterword sets this frightening excerpt within a broader moral and historical context.

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Chilling * Scotsman *

'May the general public simply go on seeing me as a bloodthirsty beast, the cruel sadist, the murderer of millions, because the broad masses cannot conceive the commandment of Auschwitz in any other way' Rudolf Hoess 'Chilling' The Scotsman

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Rudolf Hoess (1900 1947) supervised the organised extermination of two million people during his tenure as commandant of Auschwitz. He was hanged in Poland for his war crimes. Jürg Amann is the award-winning author of numerous plays, essays, and literary criticism. He lives in Switzerland. Ian Buruma, the author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents , writes frequently for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times

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