“You become hard when you carry out such orders.”

—  Rudolf Höss

To Leon Goldensohn, April 8, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

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German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz concentration … 1901–1947

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