Zone of Interest is based on fact with artistic licence. No one knows what their everyday lives were. It depicted Herr (Mrs) Hoss as a cold uncaring self absorbed materialist woman.

@@margaretmcgarry, it’s Frau Höss, her husband was Herr Höss.

@@margaretmcgarry like I said I understand it was just a film’s depiction, so I get artistic license. We don’t know exactly their day to day lives during that time. But, the director said he researched it extensively through testimony and accounts to bring us the closest vision of what that would have been like. And it was very accurate of the close proximity of the house to one of the camps. With that said I stand by my opinion that she wasn’t just oblivious to what was going on behind those walls. She may have compartmentalized it to normalize the circumstance, but I don’t buy that she just had no idea people were being mistreated or dying as a result of her husband’s command over the camp.

HOESS: Yes, "secret Reich matter" means that no one was allowed to speak about these matters with any person and that everyone promised upon his life to keep the utmost secrecy. DR. KAUFFMANN: Did you happen to break that promise? HOESS: No, not until the end of 1942. DR. KAUFFMANN: Why do you mention that date? Did you talk to outsiders after that date? HOESS: At the end of 1942 my wife's curiosity was aroused by remarks made by the then Gauleiter of Upper Silesia, regarding happenings in my camp. She asked me whether this was the truth and I admitted that it was. That was my only breach of the promise I had given to the Reichsfáhrer. Otherwise I have never talked about it to anyone else. DR. KAUFFMANN: When did you meet Eichmann? HOESS: I met Eichmann about 4 weeks after having received that order from the Reichsfáhrer. He came to Auschwitz to discuss the

Lol, you dont know our history, everybody knows about the Holocaust- crimes

How sad and yes she knew

😮 wtf !!

What a complete waste of space to humanity she was

Gross

Oh my God what a horrible burden to carry!😭

What about the Paper Clip operation? It's all business.

she and her children ??

It was mentioned in the video, so I googled it . She remarried and her, her new husband and the kids moved to the USA. @@jamesnewberry1191

⁠@@joeoliveira8558I don’t think she’d have been on the list as persons that were of value. The US certainly gave asylum to many war criminals deemed valuable to US interests.

I 100% agree with you.

Germans specifically.

@@elcheapo9444 Not to forget the treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis.

@@elcheapo9444 Watch the history and shame

​​@@elcheapo9444 let's not forget the genocide of the native Americans by what was then white Europeans or PolPots Cambodia, or the Japanese "Rape of Nanking" ..... or King Leopold the 2nd Genocide in the Congo free state where 5 to 10 million died and just as many had limbs hacked off with axes or machetes. So not just the Germans

Animals defend their own species with their lives, sometimes they even do so with animals of other species. We, the so-called "rational" human beings, destroy each other.

Yes, she definitely knew

Cost free servants that she was free to beat. On what basis did she accept that understanding?

@@gusjackson3658 They were slaves, not servants. So she knew, at an absolute minimum, that enslavement was happening. And I simply cannot believe that the evidence of the extermination programme was invisible.

@@danielintheantipodes6741she lived less than 300 meters from Crematoria 1 … She knew..

She would have herd the screams and shots she knew every thing

Yes, the banality of evil. Perhaps they had an air freshener or something to remove the smell.

Truly evil

Exactly! How can you ‘not’ ask what the order was?? No way would I not have wonder nor not ask!

Who told you that bullcrap.

@@user-my2ji5dr9v Historical records. Not in dispute.

What about the people who live next to Gitmo?

Yes and the Israelis who stand outside the walls of Gaza protesting the delivery of food. They know as well.

@@damonmelendez856What about your whataboutism?

​@damonmelendez856 didn't know there were ovens or mass graves there. Oh wait there wasn't, it was a black site for the worlds top terrorist scumbags and many housed there had r*pe/murder tribe boys and as well kill civilians for their "cause" and is now closed due to diplomatic ruling. Something the birthplace of the prisoners never heard of.

I suspect she probably discussed ways to exterminate people with her husband.

Yes indeed 🙏❤

Can you even imagine the amount of prayers that were made by the six million people that were killed, and not once did your God step in to help, You can stick your prayers up your own backside

And you know this from a bias hunch.

Was she hung next to the husband

...SHE DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW- AND NEITHER DID THE REST OF THE PEOPLE IN GERMANY-(!)

I think she didnt wann know, she repressed that

@@nigelmorgan3449 Did you watch the video?

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If you don't what cremation smells like though, is it not possible to not know what you're smelling? The real house wasn't as close as the one in Zone of Interest. The real house was a couple miles away in actuality. It wasn't right up against the camp like in the movie because if there was ever a jailbreak, the commandant would be in danger. There were layers of defense around it such as minefields, MG nests, and trees blocking it from looking in. Have you ever seen a warden build a house right beside the prison he supervises? Of course not. It's unsafe from a design sensibility. Zone of Interest is a movie. It's not undisputed historical fact simply because so much of the Holocaust was covered up by the Germans, and survivors were few. There's still a lot we don't know about it actually. Even the gas chambers you can visit on the Auschwitz tour today were reconstructed because the SS dynamited the real ones before the Soviets liberated it in January 1945.

❤🙏😢 May all of the victims rest in peace ❤

I have heard that there is a 'weight' to the place that one can actually feel

I don’t think I would want to visit Aushwitz.

Yes, and we must never forget…it’s beyond the pits of hell what went on in these camps.

I visited, the horrors were groups of Israeli youths carrying on being noisy and disruptive.

Willfully ignorant.

Those burnings were 3 miles away.

Most people are not interested in real history, or history at all. 'History is but a fable. Agreed upon lies written by the victors' Napoleon Bonaparte

@@DavidISHERWOOD-iu1xn You'll smell hundreds of burning bodies for a much greater distance than 3 miles. I can assure you, the smell is unforgettable.

In Birkenau they burnt masses of corpses under the free sky..

Das konnte man in den ausgebombten deutschen Städte jeden Tag riechen! Besonders in Dresden! Das war eines der größten Verbrechen der Menschheit!

They let Braun in as well, to get a head start on rocket technology.

@@danielintheantipodes6741 yeah!!! None of any of those people including the US people are good!!!!

That an entire SS division was given sanctuary in Great Britain, courtesy of one Christopher Mayhew, whose job it was to vet any would-be immigrants for participation in war crimes.

NEVER,, LOOK AT OUR BORDERS,,,,, NO WALLS

@@danielintheantipodes6741 Yes but this women was not a rocket scientist and did not offer value to the military, as Braun did. There was every reason to deny her entry. Unless she made a deal with the authorities for telling them where her husband was hiding out.

There is a movie out now, The Zone of Interest that show she definitely knew what was going on.

@@thelocalartisanguide7937 Thanks, that is on my future viewing radar now. 👍

Or smell it too.

Si c k

Just watch ‘the Boy in the Striped Pajamas’. At least learn something before you rant

Things were a lot different than women did not know a lot and did what they was told

​@@sallysowers7305She knew but what could she do?

Exactly.. I mean the skies over the streets of Krakow were full of ash .. ash rained down on everything and if the average Joe citizen knew what that was there's not an ice creams chance in hell that his wife was in the dark

She lived NEXT DOOR to Auschwitz for fuck sake

I'm so sorry 😢 ❤

I too am so sorry

I'm truly sorry

How so so sad and disgusting. 😢 My family are from Germany and never eve

My god 😢 many German people were unaware I have a tale from my late Oma which to this day sends a shiver down my spine 😢😢😢😢😢

Commies did worse

Not Nazi. German.

The way our world is right now I think people have forgotten and our youth know nothing of history. It is disgusting.

@@christophercook723 ...NOT ALL NAZIS WERE GERMANS- AND VICE VERSA...

@@christophercook723 Not all Germans. There was a heroic minority who resisted.

Of course she knew.

Seems like the children were also evil by beating servants

@@saraf9081that’s a dumb thing to say

Just like the jews/zionists know exactly what is happening to the Palestinians in Gaza! Your hypocrisy is beyond belief.

Maybe she knew. But we also knew it was needed what happend.

Yes of course she did. I can't imagine she'd be saying " oh darling, where is all the smoke coming from, and what's that terrible smell we're nearly choking on?" Bizzare that she had no punishment whatsoever. Now I want to know what happened to their children.

Some years ago an author called DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN caused consternation when he published a book proving conclusively that EVERY German knew.....

I know Nuthing - Sgt Schulz

The whole German 🇩🇪 people knew tbh! The were seig heiling Hitler from the begging!!! What happened to those? They suddenly became democratic persons in 3 years??? Also it s worth while to know who gave hitler the money to build his SS and army? In the 1920s they were starving to death ! How is it possible in 5-6 years the build the finest army and conquered Europe in 6 months????😂😂😂 if you want to study history you need to dig deep!!

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Some time ago now, I met a man, Jock, who was one of the first British soldiers to enter and liberate Auschwitz. It was clear that he was deeply scarred by that experience. He particularly mentioned the stench of the burning bodies that lingered in the camp and could be smelt miles away. He said it was a smell he would never forget.

​@@Muddy283Auschwitz would have been the Red Army. Maybe you confuse it with Bergen Belsen.

Baruch Dayan HaEmet...

@@mathiasbartl903 I'm really sorry. You're right. It was Belsen. But wow, my conversation with him still haunts me, even some 40 years later.

@@mathiasbartl903 - thank you. I wasn’t going to correct him bc I thought he meant when British troops got there after the So It’s did. Not sure it they did but yes, you are correct , Soviets got there first

It was all just pure evil...and the sad thing is that anti-Semitism is still so prevalent and utterly sick...I listen to such horrible things people say about my family every day...they are just ignorant - mind-numbingly stupid

I feel what your saying and understand but there’s prison all across America and the world with human right problems (example) the 1 in Mississippi that was just in the news…. First thing all guards and warden said was I’m just doing my job so my point is people are easily brainwashed especially when the law is on they side 🤷🏽‍♂️

Die Verbrechen die auf den Rheinwiesen passiert sind, blieben ungesühnt! Waren die Alliierten!

Indeed. It was based on this.

Omg. That movie made me bawl. Very well done.

No. The fact the Franz Stangl's wife was told by a drunk SS man revealed how she felt about her husband being the one in charge at Treblinka (or possibly Sobibor-he was in charge of both-not at the same time). She cried and refused to have relations with him knowing what he did. Franz Reichlietner (a deputy commander) reassured her that her husband had nothing to do with killings, just making sure the Jew's valuables made it to Berlin. That was the basis for the scene in the movie "The Boy In The Stryped Pyjama." See also "Into That Darknss" by Gitta Sereny, who interviewed Franz Stangl after his trial in 1970.

I watched a video by a German woman who said that ww2, is a daily lesson in schools all the way until Graduation. It's in every subject, Religion, History,

Its incomprehensible to me that I’m seeing it in my own lifetime. 😢 when I learned about these atrocities growing up I could not understand how ordinary people could be co-opted into going along with it. Horrifically now we are seeing just how it unfolds, with so many ignorant and cruel people perpetuating antisemitic lies and hatred. My grandmother like many other Londoners, survived the Blitz and my grandfather served in the RAF and I feel so sad that todays youth don’t value and respect what that generation sacrificed for us. I feel strongly now that is up to my generation who learned the awful truth to educate the young.

damit muss endlich Schluss sein.Schluss mit der Schuldkultur.Es gibt Staaten die feiern ihre Verbrechen bis heute noch

What's with . . . . all the . . . . . .dots

She was just like Sgt Schultz in Hogans Hero’s

@@michaeldebidart someone felt artistic.

I used to work at a crematorium. I can't say anything about the layout or geography of the camps. What I can tell you is that it only takes a few weeks to become completely desensitized to the smell of a crematorium. After about two months I could not smell it any more. We had a four oven facility. So that's four stacks. We were very busy so that was probably around 8-15 bodies per day. You can't smell it from 500 feet away at that volume. From 1000 feet you would not be able to smell 100 bodies per day and from half a mile you would not be able to smell 1000 bodies per day. That's just a reference point to consider. And that is if you've never been to a crematorium and are not used to the smell. If they started a small number of bodies from say 300 feet and gradually ramped up production to thousands per day it is conceivable that she never noticed the smell. You and even I, walking past within 100 feet would definitely notice thousands per day. So a lot would depend on how far she was and if they suddenly started burning thousands per day of if they gradually increased and it was further away from her home. I would suggest looking at the layout of the camp and how far their home actually was from the crematoria smoke stacks and that should give you some insight as to whether she could smell it. All that said, even without smelling anything, she had to know horrors were going on in the camp and her husband was in charge. But as a devout anti Semite it is likely she either didn't care what happened or knew and was happy about it. I have personally witnessed the face of seething hatred and such people don't actually consider those they hate to be human beings. They demonize them to the point that seeing one die is no more significant to them than seeing a fly being swatted. It's frightening to witness.

Not just many Germans suffered “amnesia“. Some like to think that it was just the Germans, but it was people all over Europe and the US that turned the blind eye and/or helped the Nazis. I’m sure there were also many who felt powerless to do anything for fear that their families would be taken off to the camps.

The biggest part of fiction is the "suffering guilt for what she knew". In reality, Brigitte went to Spain, became a model for Balenciaga, married a rich Irish American man and lived a comfortable life in Virginia U.S: where she took her mother! Yes, the 'ignorant' wife, subject of this video. And, at end, interviewed by The Washington Post, she questioned the nunmbers of deaths, saying "how could there be so many victims, if so many survived" ???!!! That is the argument of a hatefull person, very much like her father and trying to excuse him. Lacking any login, just like hatefull people usually are.

Only a deplorable nazi would put the life of a dog over a human being..

the whole she allowed her children to beat the servants. She knew they weren't servants. You didn't beat servants. She knew they were slaves. And beating anyone, and teaching your children that is fine, is not being a good mother.

Hitler loved is dog to

So was sHitler.

AND ‼️

It's miracle that she survived..... in that Hell

Babies don't choose where to be born.

​@@sanjeevkumar-fo1klyour confusing this babies birth with an inmate this was a nazi child born in the ss quarters

She survived the war and in about 1950 met and married an American service man and lived out her life in suburban USA. To the end of her days she defended and admired her father saying on many occasions he was a wonderful father, there are interviews available on you tube with her.

@@johnstirling6597, ? ?? . The daughter who was born in Auschwitz was around 7 years old by 1950 .

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Bang on!!! There's no way she couldn't know that the atmosphere around the confines of the villa was engulfed by the negative energy of human suffering & death. Women have a way of deliberately ignoring suffering around them, if the needs of their children & themselves are catered to. Moreso if those needs are provided in a luxurious setting.

Yes but if you were Rudolph us would you not tell your wife to do and say the same things to protect yourself to protect the woman you love

No. Golddiggers will do that. Normal women will not.

In the Zone of Interest film, her character refers to herself as being called the ‘queen of Auschwitz’.

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Also I was told that the camps smelled like what they were, so she'd have an idea of what was going on just because of that.

​@maryfreebed9886 so you assume she knows what burnt human smells like

@@joelhungerford8388 Not at first, but considering it's certainly not a restaurant and they aren't cooking mass quantities of edible meat, that might be a conclusion to draw, especially if her husband commented on what he did all day at all.

@@floatpool8307 of course! If they repented and accepted Christ as their savior, then of course they'll be forgiven! But those that didn't will have to answer, we will all have to stand before God when our time comes!

@@floatpool8307 of course! If they repented and accepted Christ as their savior, then of course they'll be forgiven! But those that didn't will have to answer, we will all have to stand before God when our time comes!

@@jayceew.rabbit9358​​⁠Thre is no forgiveness for such monstrous acts. If your god would forgive such things then there is something wrong with your sick god.

@@foxgloverose4788 it says in the bible that the only unforgiven sin is blasphemy of denying Christ! I have to admit I do not understand everything about God, but he is to forgive all sin if they repent and truly turn away from sin and live for Christ! Look at Paul in the Bible, he murdered Christians and was an unrighteous man, but he turned to Christ and became a Godly man. Be thankful he is just to forgive our sins if we repent and ask him! We all deserve Hell, but Jesus took our place so that we may have eternal life in Heaven if we accept his gift of salvation!

Hell on earth...the Nazis made it happen...mind boggling.

Read about the Japanese atrocities- also appalling

12 is too young for a child to visit . A killing field of mass proportions. I wouldn’t approve of a child visiting

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@@floatpool8307 Thanks for your testimony brother.

​@@floatpool8307I agree with you mostly. My mother knew my father made his living from criminal activities but she didn't know the ins and outs of his business and she didn't want to know. Hell I didn't know what he did until I was 16. I thought he worked in a barber shop but just never cut hair.

He was already a dead man b4 the trial. Who cares what she did?? It's not like she was gonna be able to do anything about it. How stupid are you people??

in first you dont know what type of relation they had. in second many thing are hidding in family overall on criminal affairs. third, maybe really didn t know nothing, but to not have suspect this is impossible, and here enter in game the first point, and about this we don t know nothing about their family relation.. he was kindly, love his children and more and in situation like this is difficult to ask because the answer will be... today has been an hard day, much work to do...and so on.

Steven Spielberg made a movie about these atrocities in a film that I can’t remember the title of. It showed the prisoners arriving at these death camps in cattle trucks and being able to see smoke and flames coming from tall chimneys which must have filled them full of fear. By seeing these things they must have known that this was the end of the road for them. Steven said it was a story that needed to be told. Well done Steven. 😢

No, many did not. The SS tried and succeeded in hiding the murders to much of Germany. They were truly monsters

At the end, he said he had been completely wrong, but God had forgiven him -- of course.

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Well, to be technically correct, it was forced servitude. Slavery is where you are owned property.

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Yeah, but your only a criminal if you get caught

@@rdbjr52 yeah no sh*t. Brilliant conclusion fktrd.

Those movies do not come even close to what happened to those victims. No movie could ever depict an SS animal like Otto Moll or Erich Mushfeldt or Gustave Wagner throwing a baby or young child alive into the crematoria or burning pit of fire. Or throwing a live, screaming baby into the air and catching it on a bayonet. How could one witness that and not feel outraged and yell out "Murderer!" And yet their SS comrades said nothing!

Which God ? Zeus , Thor or perhaps Odin?

Maybe the same God that stood idle while his chosen people prayed for salvation.

Bingo, that's what say too.

There's only one god so you idiots putting your stupid comments will also be judged by almighty God. You leave comments here but it will be judged.

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying "I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves." And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!" They cursed themselves

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Believe ANY and ALL the NONSENSE you choose. The truth is truth. There was MORE than a few wives, who helped curtail the deeds of husbands just by giving sadness and coldness to the husband. There are also wives who bolstered the evil in their husbands, helping them beyond the threshold he was willing to venture. Men and wives used to be a team, for good, AND EVIL! This woman, was pure evil. But, there is the judgement day coming.

I'm not even sure they could indict her on anything even if she had admitted it. Under normal circumstances you would require her to report it to the police but in Germany that would have been futile for obvious reasons.

doesn't matter, if she knew she is an accesory after the fact

Then what's the point of NOT admitting it? She'd just be admitting to knowing something she couldn't control. What would be the big deal?

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Unfortunately, it's not surprising: a country that comited genocide against native Americans, where POC were only given general and garanteed right to vote in the 1970's, where George Floyd, with a crinminal record for bad checks, was asfixiated by a cop, while in handcuffs, while being filmed, in the 21st century. Sounds like Nazi haven to me.

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The train engineer could have quit, as could anyone who worked there. No one, except the prisoners of course, were forced to stay at that assignment.