Rudolf Hoess: Guilty

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Guilty. You Rudolf Hoess are hereby guilty of the following crimes; Organizing and perpetrating crimes against peace, the ill-treatment and torture of inmates both physically and morally, and supervising wholesale robbery of property. You as the commandant of Auschwitz deprived over 4 million Jews of life and death by hanging is your verdict.

How did Rudolf Hoess, a human being like us commit these crimes? How could he live with himself? Was he born evil, destined to do these evil things? To answer these questions we need to understand the environment he grew up in.

Imagine that you are Rudolf, growing up as an innocent child in the failure of WWI. Your pride has been hurt and you are hungry for change. You believe the propaganda and
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