110: Rudolph Hoess, Part 2 - Arbeit Macht Frei

We pick up Rudolph Hoess' story from his beginnings at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, to his promotion to commandant, to the chaotic construction of the "zone of interest" which would grow into the most infamous concentration camp of all time under his leadership. At this time the evil machinations within Auschwitz are starting to become underway, and prisoners come to understand exactly what "Arbeit Macht Frei" means in the eyes of the Nazi regime.

Episode Transcript

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Post would watch the beatings and hangings as if you were
watching a movie, but with no reaction showing in his face.
And that was a witness that was imprisoned prison in Auschwitz.
And that was very, very truthfulto who we're talking about.
We're in Part 2 of Rudolf Host. And I'm Jen.
I'm Becky. And this is too close to home.

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Nazi edition. Yes, yes.
OK, So let me go through these sources again.
Gotta give the respect. The commandant of Auschwitz
autobiography by Rudolf Host. KL History of Nazi concentration
camps by Nicholas Washman. Washman, 3rd Reich.
The Fall and Rise on Netflix. A2 part documentary.
Nazi death Marches 1944 to 1945.Amazon Prime.

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Nazis at Nuremberg. A Lost testimony on Hulu.
Telegraph UK. Smithsonian Magazine.
auschwitz.org. Geo People.
Everyday Science. The Holocaust.
Encyclopedia Sentinel University.
World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
Jewish Currents organization. Conference on Jewish material.
Games against Germany. Music and the Holocaust.
Organization. CNN.
Auschwitz. Birkenau Museum.

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PBS. National Library of Medicine.
BBC History of sorts blog The Holocaust history project,
Jewish virtual library organization, Facing history
organization. WW2 Foundation.
Jewish gin organization. Bam.
I mean, I did use a lot of sources.
You did. We talked about the last time,

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we talked about his childhood, Brady's childhood and his first
experiences of war crimes, you know, getting into the
concentration camps and launching into the Nazi ranks.
Really finding himself. Yeah, live, laugh lovin finding
his groove this time we're goingto continue in his journey.
But as he creates Auschwitz and so he was he would I'm going to

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just kind of pick up where we left off because we were talking
about the types of prisoners last time.
Now we're going to talk about the types of guards because he
will also wanted to talk about that.
Because he well, let's let him. He wanted to do it like he was a
scientist. I guess he gave an example of
the three types of the awful guards.
First was the most evil and lazy.
They sought out to cause pain and humiliation.
They would do things just to be malicious, like make the water

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in the shower spoiling hot or high seacold, or making
prisoners stand in them or egging on the capos which are
the inmate guards to be extra rough.
The second, which was the vast majority who were indifferent
and just did their job to the bare minimum as expected.
That sounds like my colleagues right?
They followed orders as instructed and while they would

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also treat the inmates as objects, like the evil guards,
they did not regard them as playthings.
They would do stuff like not paying attention to the inmates
for when they turned the water too hot and then they would
ignore the shouts of the inmatesand then time would be up and he
would just turn the water off sothe unwashed inmates would just

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like re redress and the guards still felt like he did his job.
The water got turned on and it got turned off.
Well what do you want from me? I can't wash their ass for you.
Did it say in his job description it had to be a
manageable temp? I don't think so.
The third was the worst in his opinion.
The ones who regarded the inmates as human beings, bastard

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and would be kind unnecessary bastards.
Their weakness of being sensitive would be seen by
prisoners and exploited first. It starts with passing a letter
and before you know it, you're helping them excavate the prism
and that will not do. While he writes how considerate
and kind he was and how he abhorred the violence towards

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the inmates, he speaks of them as a vermin who is evil hearted
and just not worth the air they breathe.
Speaking on that third type of guard, he would delve into what
he felt was the real remedy for inmates work.
Their day-to-day work would helpthem get over their emptiness
and loneliness. Oh yeah.
Now there are people who were loafers in his opinion, not
mine, that who are content in doing nothing.

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But he felt that was the minority he found himself to be
of great mental health during his incarceration.
That working gave him the ability to keep improving
himself and move forward withoutbeing so completely drowned in
self pity. Well, sure, when you're killing
people, I mean, how can you not be motivated to just keep doing
the best job there is? He said the worst punishment for

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him would've been if you had taken his work away.
I'm sure if you know anything about Auschwitz, you know about
the sign that says Arbeitmak Fry, that's over the camp's
entrance. It means work brings freedom.
Aika has stated that any inmate who worked hard enough to set
them apart from the rest had their chance to gain their

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freedom. I could feel the indignation in
Rudy's voices, he said. And indeed, this occasionally
happened until the war put an end to all good intentions.
Sir, you never had good intentions.
Stop it, Stop playing. You're not cute.
By 1938, Hitler had been Germanyhad been under Hitler for four

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years. Overall, it was in a great
stance economically by appearances, and having gone
through the night of long nightswhere Hitler had his enemies
executed, he had Germany poised to begin its genocide of the
Jews. Dachau would be reorganized from
the ground up by Aika instillingcontrol over the guards and
dismissing or arresting those who made waves.

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I don't know what that reminds me of, but whatever.
Aika would use Dachau as the poster child of what a
concentration camp should be andwould begin launching the
overall vision for the concentration system.
It would be because of this thatin September of 1938, Host would
get transferred. With just a year left before the

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official beginning of World War Two, he was given the post of
adjunct in the Saxenhausen concentration camp.
Saxenhausen, like all concentration camps, has its own
horrific history beginning in 1936.
Built by inmate labor. It would only be the beginning
of what they would do to their prisoners.
They'd eventually go on to test military gear like boots and

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rucksacks, making them walk and run for miles on a meager
starvation diet. Sometimes to keep them going
longer, they would give them cocaine or experimental drugs
that contain codeine or methamphetamines.
Stop. But you're tired here, snort
some of this have a quick bump. This is also where the nut.
I did not ever know this. The bra, the things they did

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like hoping to. Get back out there.
Running out doesn't seem so out there anymore.
OK, 'cause that shit was off thechain.
People were just doing whatever the fuck.
It's weird for Nazis and Germansat that time to be like, very
precise and concise. The concentration camps were
always a fucking chaos, always fucking messy.
Just. Out there whiling out.

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Anytime anybody came to the camps that had not been there
before, they'd be like, shocked,like this is it?
What do you want from me? I'm doing the best I can.
It's basically what he says. The whole book.
I tried the best with what I am.He sent me here, I killed a lot
of people and then now they're going to kill me for it.
And now everybody's a cokehead and just wants another line.

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I can't keep up with this budget.
Do you know how much Bolivian marching pattern costs this?
Is wow. This is also where the Nazis
would start a slave labor operation, creating fake
American and British currency todistribute and tank our economy.
Great. When they were not making money
or testing equipment, they wouldbe subjected to medical

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procedures and used as Guinea pigs to test the medications in
the first round of experimental gas murders.
See, when they first got there, they were shooting inmates one
by one in the back of the neck, which was impractical in their
opinion. Do you have any idea how much
bullets cost at that time? You don't, I don't.

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They went on to put them in the trenches.
They line them up and they shootthem.
Again, not practical. So they've been began fiddling.
I love. The weight, so matter of fact we
talk about, it's not practical. It's not.
Practical. I know it's not your words.
Right. Thank you.
That's the most important thing to distinguish this.
You know that it's not my words,that it's a Nazi's words.

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Yes, they began fiddling around with mustard gas around this
time. Stop fiddling around, my God.
The worst part is horrible. It is.
It's terrible. But like the whole time I'm
writing, I don't normally write jokes in I just, I let him just,
I just let him come. But as I'm writing I'm putting

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in jokes so like. Kiss.
I'm like, I got to do something here to survive.
This somebody somehow, somehow. The worst part, of course, was
the torture. See, Segways are horrible.
They did freely and often torture the inmates.
One of their favorites was the Stapato.
Do you know what that is? I don't.

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I don't know that I want to, butyou're going to tell me.
So you tie their hands behind their back and then you hang
them from their hands, resultingin dislocations in their
shoulders, in severe pain, possible aches, a lot of a lot
of tears and shit. They also had shoulders are
already not in good shape, so I'd probably just swing in

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circles and be fine. And by the they're all on like
starvation diet. So it's like literal toothpicks.
They had their own quote Socks in house and salute where the
inmate would squat and have their hands straight out in
front of them for hours. Rudy would be at socks in house
And when the war began that morning I could would give a
speech described by hosts. In it he emphasized the harsh

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laws of the war now prevailed. Each s s man was committed body
and soul, regardless of the lifehe had had here to here here
there to LED. That happens to me sometimes.
I just don't know why I can't get my brain around that word.
But regardless of the life that they had LED, there we go.

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Each order received must be regarded as sacrosanct, and even
those who appeared the most harsh and severe must be carried
out without hesitation. The Reichsfieter s s, which was
Himmler, demanded that every s sman should exhibit an exemplary
sense of duty and should be prepared to devote himself to
people and his Fatherland, even unto death.

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Not for me, dog. That statement would become
chillingly true within hours. That evening, Mueller of the
Gestapo called and relayed that a Courier would be delivering an
order shortly and it had to be carried out forthwith without
hesitation. The order?
Well, it was 2 police officials in a handcuffed civilian with a
written order that said by command of the Rice photo S S

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the prisoner is to be shot. He is to be informed of this
while in custody and the sentence is to be carried out
one hour later, which is super rude.
Now you're committing me to a whole hour to this activity that
I don't want to participate in. Well, for the next hour I'm just
going to be completely crazy andmake your life hell and try to
run away. Exactly.
Maybe you'll shoot me sooner. Oh, I was.

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Thinking about it from the Nazi point of view, you're thinking
about it from the inmates, yes. Like, yeah, now I'm committed to
this because they're not, because they're not worried
about this, They're worried about themselves.
That's what I would think. So by this time, having been
introduced to the upper echelon of the Nazi officials, seeing
the things they were working towards and feeling confident

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that this was the right side to be on, he, of course followed
the orders without flinching. He got three of his soldiers and
ran through the plan. They're going to erect a
platform and have an execution by rifle.
He led the prisoner up the platform, remarking that the man
looked like he had resigned himself to the fact that he
would die soon. They did allow him to write a
letter to his family and have a cigarette, which is all one can

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ask for, really. You know what I mean?
I mean, at this point, yeah, maybe some French fries.
But I don't know what if I can ask for anything?
Can I have my life? I have one wish.
Please. But if we can't go with #1 #2 is
a smoke and a some fries hot with salt.
Don't give me no cold fries. McDonald's fries.

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Only when they're hot and salty.Super hot, yeah.
It's crunchy, burning my mouth. I'm hungry, obviously.
So Rudy released the prisoner onthe platform, took a step back
and shot a fire, and the prisoner would fall immediately,
to which Rudy says he gave him the Coupe de Grasse and ended
his life, which was point blank shot.

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He was shot in the heart three times.
That seems excessive. The heart's tiny.
All in all, the man was shot in the heart three times.
I mean, that host literally wrote that.
For someone who pretends to be remorseful, that was fucking
cool to me because he said that Coupe de gras.
I gave him a coupe. Who says that?
Oh, I'm an unwilling participant, but I say coupe de

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gras like this was a hurrah. Monsters.
Monsters, thank you. Oh, I said mobsters.
Oh, I think, he said. Monsters both.
I see no lies. Answers.
I see no lies, so this would be far from the last execution.
Next was a little too close to home.

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They have been executing those who were deserters or saboteurs
and one face came up that shocked them.
It was the S S police officer that he had worked with before,
one that had brought several notable prisoners and official
documents to the camp. Apparently Homey had been a
little too nice to a prisoner and was up for execution.
That the guard. Yeah.

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The one that was like guard of the year all the sudden was
being nice and now he's like, wegot to get rid of you.
Was the s s. He had worked with this s s
officer before and that he was like super like we had no
problems. Yeah, he was guard of the Year
and now all of a sudden he's being nice.

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He seems like this is confusing me.
He had allowed a guard, he had allowed a guy to go home to say
to a goodbye to his wife and of course he went with him and they
waited out front so he could go in and he pulled a Jody and went
out the back door. I would have done the same thing
though. And so this.

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I'm just going to go in and say bye.
Y'all don't have y'all can wait out here.
I'll be right back out. Don't.
Worry, don't worry to worry. It's not a it's one door in, one
door out. You don't worry about.
It yeah, I don't even got Windows.
See those things? Just for show.
Yeah, just for show. This earned him an instant court
martial, followed by a swift judgement, a death.
Well, you know, even here in America, if you let an inmate

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escape, I mean, there are consequences.
I'm not execution, but there aredefinite consequences.
Somebody's going to be going on a leave without pay.
I'm not why there's an investigation pending.
Exactly. I'm not saying that the inmate
deserved to be an inmate in thissituation, but you know, Sir,
there are consequences for your actions.
Exactly. This time though, which was

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tough for host, was that he was ordered to be the executioner.
This Do you have to do The Dirtywork now, Sir?
Like before, he did the firing squad deal and his hand shook
and as he loves to say, he gave him the Coupe de Grasse to his
head. He did everything he could,
apparently to not seem fazed by it.
But afterwards, he said he and his comment took a long silent

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walk in the woods to recover themselves.
We. Went for a smoke break and then
we were good. Yeah, Ika had always pushed
obedience and his motto that wason his letter at letterhead was
there is only one thing that is valid orders host would say.
This is where he learned that you dare not step a toe out of
line. The s s responsibility was to

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protect the interests of the state at all costs, including
the cost of two cost of a seniors s commanders who spoke out of
turn. If you weren't killed for it,
you'd be shunned by your own party.
And to some that would be even worse than death.
I don't know about you. I think that that's worse, but.
Same. That seems like, hold on man,

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but I'm I'm actually beat my owndrum, you know what I mean?
I'm not much of a follower. In the change of prisoners, he
saw more types of prisoners. As time moved, the types of
prisoners rapidly changed from political to just one of the
subhuman categories. One of the most interesting
parts was of this was the category of Jehovah's Witnesses.

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I'm not fixing to delve into Jehovah's, but a short.
Choice don't. They'll be at your door later
anyway, so. A short description is like if
you took Jesus and then you called him Jehovah and then
basically waited for the world to end.
That is a inaccurate simplification, but I'm not here
for religious wormholes unless it involves Satan and demons.
OK, the important thing to note is that they don't like fun.

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Like they they don't celebrate holidays, birthdays.
Yeah, they, they believe the world's coming to an end.
They did not believe in violence, so they refused to
take up arms or participate in anything political and are
deeply fanatical about their religion.
This is why they were in concentration camps, basically.
They were fanatical about the religion, and that was a threat
to the influence of Nazism. Nazis were the opposite of

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witnesses. All violence.
It's all about purifying Germanyand making it great again.
All the time. All the time.
Making it great again. I saw the way you slid that in.
Witnesses would abstain from thehighest degree.
Witnesses would abstain to the highest degree and would
prophesize against violence, undermining Nazi principles and

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Hitler's eyes. They made them sign papers
promising not to be witnesses anymore and to not add any more
witnesses to the organization. But due to pressure from the
ones who didn't sign, many wouldpersist in their faith.
They hoped to suffer like Jehovah and Diana's name was
like an ultimate goal. They usually went with delight,
basically running to the gallows, hands up, stretched in

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salutations, ready to be embraced by Jehovah for all
their. Suffering.
I don't want to be any part of areligion that my goal is to die
a torturous, painful death. If they ended up being
conscripted as soldiers, they would refuse to touch weapons
standing and stand at attention.They basically refused to do
anything whatsoever for the military.
This was infuriating as Nazis want the only blind obedience to

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be the damn. Yeah OK, we can't be sharing
this stuff. Hosts would comment that they
only saw prisoners, that the only prisoners he ever saw to
enjoy punishment and by far the most about of all the prisoners
for the Jehovah's Witnesses. I have met many religious
fanatics in my time on pilgrimages and monasteries and

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Palestine on the Hejaws Rd. in Iraq and Armenia.
There they were Catholics, both Roman and Orthodox, Muslims,
Shiites and Semites. But the Witnesses in Saxon,
Hausen, and particularly two of them surpassed anything that had
previously seen. These two especially fanatical
Witnesses refused to do any workthat had any connection whatever

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with with military matters. They would not stand at
attention, or drill in time withthe rest, or lay their hands
along the seam of their trousers, or remove their caps.
They said that such marks of respect were due only to
Jehovah, and that the man and that and not to man.
They recognized only one Lord and Master, Jehovah.

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Both of them had to be taken to the block set of cyber Jehovah's
Witnesses and put in cells, since they constantly urged the
other witnesses to pave it in similar manner.
I mean, I'm here for that. I love.
It resist, I resist. Bit of it.
I got had frequently sent them to be flogged because they're
anti discipline disciplinarian behavior.
They underwent his punishment with joyous fervor that amounted

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almost to a perversion. You mean were they like do it
again, do it again? They pickle.
The first time. Yes, because they said the next
part of the word is they begged the commandant to increase their
punishment so they might be ableto, they might be able better to
testify to Jehovah. I wonder if that would work if I
got kidnapped. I'm like, you're only pulling

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one now pull 2 because I want tobe like Jehovah.
Yeah, if they'd be like, I wouldfreak them out.
Exactly. Then they used to get all turned
off by it, You know what I mean?After they've been ordered to
report for military service, which, Needless to say, they
flatly refused. Indeed, they refused even to put
their signature on a military document.
They were two condemned to deathby the Rice Theater s s.

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The fact he was like Pikachu face shocked to make me laugh
invertedly because he was like the pot calling the kettle
overly. Obedient like hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on. He had long struggled with his
religion, so following a made-upentity versus real people.
I can see his confusion there but that is so black and white I
can't handle it. Yes. 100% like.

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Sir, there is a lot of Gray here.
Post would also draw attention to the fact that Aika and
Himmler hated the Witnesses but yet they greatly admired their
ferocity and being loyal to Jehovah, and that the SS2 should
show such unwavering obedience to Hitler and the Nazi pottery.
Well, they're like the ideal person for them because if they

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could get their laser focus on Jehovah off of him and onto
them, they would be their best little soldiers.
But they never could. Oh yeah.
Because so they were like, well,we're going to murder him, but
he's getting turned on by it. He said that Jehovah likes it.
I don't know what to do. They're like live, love, laugh,
Jehovah. Right exactly.
Now let's talk about some of my favorite people in all the

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world. Homosexuals, of course.
They were their own category of prisoner, just like now, and has
always been. There is a severe prejudice
against homosexuals. I don't know why everybody's
concerned with who people are kissing, but that's not my
business. I don't, I don't think I'll ever
be able to wrap my mind around why people give a book.
Yeah, like baby, do you wake up and see them in the mirror every

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morning because you see yourself?
I just don't get it. You're not answering the pearly
gates for them, just for you, Boo Boo.
And I think Jesus wouldn't like the way you're anything right
now. Oh.
No, according to them, Jesus would like the way they're
acting. It's.
Not very pro-life of you. Also, I want to know, like I
want people to know that I referto the types of prisoners.

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The way I refer to the types of prisoners isn't my personal
labeling labeling. I don't walk around people
calling people Jews and homosexuals.
I'm just using the context of what they called those prisoners
in that time. OK, put that out there.
Not a Nazi. I'm not saying in a derogatory
manner, I'm just that's the label they.
Have good to put that disclaimerout there because.

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Train trains me. I would never assume you did,
but maybe not everybody would assume.
They might think you just walkedby and we're like, hey, are you
a Jew? Are you a Jew?
Hosts and Nazis were anti LGBTQ plus but when it suited them,
some prominently. Like you were allowed to in
prison, but not on the outside? Right, right.
Also in the case of really high prominent leaders of the Nazi

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regime. Wait a minute, wait a minute.
OK, nevermind. I'm gonna let you finish before
I make my comment. So there's one that was known,
very well known to be gay and live out in the open pretty much
without retribution until they were no longer considered in in
the Nazi regime. And that like in the case of the

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Night of a long, the long Night of Lives, where Ernest Rohm, a
Nazi who is the highest ranks and openly homosexual, had
become vocal against some of Hitler's ideas and he would be
murdered for it. And they would be like, well, he
was homosexual. But it was cool before.
That it was cool for like the last five years, but not now.
As long as he was hail Hitler. Yeah, but as soon as he stopped

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doing. That when he stopped Thailand,
that's when he had to dial in OK.
Just making sure I understand the rules, yeah?
They're all made-up. They they are and they're hard
to change. They're hard to follow.
They get a little back and forth.
There's a lot of Gray areas despite them trying to be very
black and white. About it.
Yeah, there really is. He would speak of homosexuals in

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the camp as if they were old prison friends, as if he as he
witnessed it in prison. But let's be clear that these
folks weren't in there for any other fact than that they were
gay. Not that they were in jail for a
crime and just happened to be gay.
That's two different things. What you like to fuck and
breaking the law is not interchangeable or equal.

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But here we are. Hosts would describe how they
would split up all the homosexuals amongst the
buildings only to receive a lot of complaints about the
activities. So hosts would put them all in
one building with strict guards and restrictions to persevere
sex with that. With that happening, Rudy would
say quote. Thereafter, only isolated cases

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of unnatural intercourse occurred.
He would speak on the various types he observed in a very
clinical way, saying quote. I can only add that I found the
habits and mentality of the various kinds of homosexuals and
the study their psyches under prison conditions extremely
instructive. It's like, Sir, are you taking
bedroom tips? I think he's taking notes, yeah.

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First you just had sexually deviant men who were basically
this is his categories, OK? This is what he thinks gay
people are. OK, first you had like the
sexually deviant men who were just like so horny they got
bored on women and that's why they were gay.
Oh, OK, OK, OK. Like, you know what?
the V ain't working, let's go into the B, OK, OK, then you

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have those who are on the cusp and able to be saved.
You know what? I mean, OK, just need some
prayer. Yeah, they have.
They haven't have exercises where they would hire sex
workers to act seductively towards these prisoners to cure
them. Oh.
OK, OK, OK. And while some were cured or
what I assumed faith being curedto escape the camp.
I would assume that as well, butcarry on, what do I know?

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The others were far too gay to even pretend, according to Rudy.
One thing that really struck me was how he couldn't connect love
to gay relationships. Like seriously, It was replacing
to him how they would want to bewith each other and would die
for each other. He would recall a few committing
suicide when they're partners orquote friends as he would say in
the past. Like what he had particular

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disdain for. So they were terminal, gay
terminal. Terminal Forever Forever ever,
as Andre 3000 would say. He had a particular disdain for
the stress young guy, which is atype of German sex workers.
His disgust wasn't that they were gay, but that they were
lazy and shirked all work. They were working it, baby.

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They were working it. That being sex workers was just
their trade and that's why they were gay.
Oh, OK, OK. I like the way that they're
they're, you know, weaving through those lines.
I'm not really gay. I just, that's just my job.
That's just my job. Yeah, that's my 9:00 to 5:00.
I go home to my wife every night.
I found gay all my 1040 OK. What?

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I'm married, filing jointly withmy wife.
Exactly. Just to remind you, this is an
autobiography and it reads very much like that in that he'll
jump thoughts because one thing reminds him of another, and in
this case it was the furious, masturbating Romanian Prince.
So he sounds a little ADD to me very because that's what I'll
do. He was brought to Dachau after

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much scandal, This Romanian Prince, he was living with his
mother in Germany while fucking anyone he could get his hands
on. Rudy assumed because he was so
Corning that he wasn't really gay, but that he was probably
bored of women and he just needed some new excitement.
Right? OK, it's not the case.
He was just that massive sexual deviant that probably should
have been committed into a mental institution instead of

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being put in Dachau. Like, I'm not in the kink shame,
but the way they made it sound like it was like a sex
addiction. Not necessarily.
He's just out there having a good time, you know what I mean?
I'm not a slut shamer, I'm a slut Famer, OK?
I'm just trying to figure out where they thought taking like a
whole bunch of game in and putting them all in a cell

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together was going to stop them being gay.
That's just just. Not too logic, you know what I'm
saying? Yeah.
None of it makes sense. He would be in prison and the
first thing they would do is strip search.
And after him being weirdly shy,they were able to get the Prince
undressed, which was kind of weird, but.
He's like, no, he's good. You're.
Gonna be dinner first. I'm.

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Gonna show you Pete. You ready, Pete?
That's when they just that's. What I'm picturing.
I'm sure that's not what happened, but that's what I'm
picturing. Well, when they got him, when he
finally got naked, that's when they discovered that his entire
body, no, his entire body, was covered in tattoos of sexual
things. Like I'm so fucking here for.
It like a Kama Sutra on the go. So you mean like when he would

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be with someone, he'd be like, let's do?
Nipple tat. Yeah, do my left nipple tat see
this one of my bicep. I've been really wanting to.
And watch when I flex it, OK, You see how they're moving.
That's what we're going to do. I'm here for it.
Fucking here for it. The fun wouldn't stop there
though, because that's when theydiscovered just how he's
quickly. He could be excited by a mere

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touch or someone just being nearhim.
That's why I think it's a sexualcompulsion addiction because
like he would just like start fucking masturbating furiously.
Anybody making you could breatheon him hard.
Maybe he had a tumor on his pituitary gland and it was
releasing too much testosterone.That's what I'm saying.
I think it was definitely not a.It doesn't sound like the

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average man. No, it seems like a very
isolated case. It does.
One of my favorite quotes from this passage was Rudy saying
quote. After a few hours I went to see
how this rare plant was thrivingand I was met by the room senior
who begged me to release him at once from his charge.

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He was like bruh I can only watch him Jack his Dick for so
long. He said he would tell him just
how easily excited homie would get and how he just have a go at
himself right there and it wouldhappen in front of hosts when he
would took him to the doc for anexam.
Really like 9. Nine.
We hit a bump on the way and olddude was sort of fucking humping

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the seat belt. Like I can't.
I can't. The doc recommended the man be
committed because curing him wasa waste of time.
He could barely work either because he was great at
masturbating. Because while he was great at
masturbating, he was so weakly that he fell over trying to push
a wheelbarrow. My forearms are so tired like.

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You don't realize the sesh I just had, OK.
I have a little elbow tendonitis.
Because some people call it tennis elbow, I call it
masturbators elbow. Eventually would Rudy would
recall it was all quite useless.They tried tying his hands, but
that was not effective for long.He was given sedatives and kept

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cool, all in vain. He became weaker and weaker.
Nevertheless, he crawled out of bed and attempted to reach the
other prisoners. He was put under arrest pending
the decision of the Rice TheaterSS2 laters.
He was dead. He had died while masturbating.
Oh fuck, he died doing what he loved.
He died. Yes he did.
He's like when a dog scoots their ass across the ground.

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He was just scooping his Dick across the ground when he was
tied up. That's actually really sad.
He probably did have a medical condition.
He really he had to have, but he.
Had to have. When he said rare plant I was
like you are right that is a rare rare.
Plant I've heard of unusual things like soldiers
masturbating in porta potties. I don't know anyway like that.

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But this is a little bit further.
While presenting the body of theprisoner to his mother, she
stated his death was a blessing.He had been uncontrollable and
that need to fuck made life justimpossible.
Oh, I bet when I'm like, tell the family to sit down to

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dinner, one of my kids is over there whacking his Dick because
the tablecloth rub is like, it gets to a point where I'm like,
I can't with you anymore. She had consulted specialists in
Europe without success. He had escaped every sanatorium.
She had put him in hell, she puthim in a monastery and he was
kicked out of it, shocking at the end of her rope.
She had suggested suicide to him, which is fucking wild.

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But I can't say what it was likefor her or if I would do the
same thing. You.
You can never say what someone would do, like what you would do
in someone's shoes until you areactually in those fucking ballet
shoes. 24/7 JJ walked around with his Dick out, Jack in it.
I'd be like, if you don't jump out the window, I'm going to
push you out of it. Have I?
Have I recommended a suicide lately?

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Sorry guys, dark humor. Dark times calls for dark humor.
I would never encourage that. And if you're struggling, please
honestly do seek help. Absolutely.
Another unique type of prisoner was that of the prominence.
While at the beginning it was a few political prisoners, it
would vastly increase to includepeople who just did not even
know why they were jailed or if they were currently arrested or

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just being detained. I'm sure that 90% of them were
like that. I'm not even know why the fuck
am I? Arrested or and the guards would
be like, I don't know, dog. I don't know either.
I just shot a guy, they told me an hour later to kill him.
I don't even know why I did it. They we keep be kept separate
from all the other prisoners andgiven no privileges whatsoever.
After a while it went from a fewto many and even the guards

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would not even know the reason for their incarceration.
So while in today's jail it's normal to not ask prisoners
their crimes as a guard, using that category system of what
kind of prisoner they were was like there's a lot of emphasis.
So that was very much talked about.
They still do that. Now you're separated by
category. Oh, yes, but like, not

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necessarily. Well, yeah, they're different
categories. Yeah, you're right.
You're non violent, you're sex offender.
So to some degree, you know. Yes, mirrors I.
Mean, how violent was your violent offense?
I don't know. I don't know.
That's for you to that's your story to tell.
That's your problem, not mine. The reason I even bring this up,

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this type up particularly, is that Rudy would delve into the
prisoners in this category who he claimed to have a regular
interaction with. Except he didn't.
He lied or made-up most of this portion of the story, so it was
like an evangelical pastor namedNiemohler.
He was imprisoned for preaching resistance, but in reality he
was preaching that men are just men, even if their name is

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Hitler, and that God is God. Sounds like he was talking
facts. He also preached the Jews for
humans. Good for him.
Rudy would state that he was well treated, super comfortable,
even insisted he was a bit of a prima Donna.
Niemohler had happened to be AU boat captain World War One and
had renounced that life in favorof being a pastor.

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He would ask to be reinstated tojoin the war in 1938.
According to Rudy, it was because he wanted to be AU boat
captain and Hitler personally declined his offer because he
had refused to wear the Nazi uniform years prior.
And truth, he did ask to rejoin.It was a Colonel who declined.
Then he sent his uniform into the regime.
Taylor had nothing to do with it.

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He was like, look, I'll join your army just because I want to
drive a boat, but I'm not wearing a swastika.
Yeah like fuck that shit. He would eventually be moved to
Dachau and other with other religious prisoners and would
have more pleasant life there. Which was also a straight up
lie. Rudy said he read all his
correspondents also a lie because they had a specific
department that handled censorship for prisoners, so he

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had no reason to even be in their letters.
I'm surprised I let him write letters.
So the more you know, the more you learn.
I honestly have no clue why it'seven included, except for the
fact that he kept insisting thatthings were all gravy and that
Saksenhausen was a soft place. The man who did some of the
translation for Rudy's book alsohas extensive footnotes with
corrections. His name was Primo Levy and he

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was a Jewish Holocaust survivor.His brother was in Saxenhausen
and he reported a much differentatmosphere than the Orange is
the New Black comedic and relaxed atmosphere that Rudy
suggests. Really I'm.
Shocked. Now, it wouldn't be in prison if
you didn't have people trying toescape.
Noting that mostly criminals were in Saxenhausen and the

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political prisoners were in Dachau, it made for two
drastically different escape styles.
The dark hour escapes were were rare and well organized and they
would quietly sneak out to void detection.
Soxhausen was more like prison riots and people had no plan
either way. Rudy explained to IKEA who was
already high strung and had a special intolerance for escapes.

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He was emphasized that at no time should any inmate ever
escape everything that can be done to prevent escapes.
Should be done. There we go.
This meant sounding the alarms instantly and locking down the
prison for as long as the escapee is on the run.
This meant guards would stand for 20 plus hours while others
haunted down the prisoner I. Don't know if I don't want to be

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in the hunting party or the standing party.
I mean even eventually like if. Both sound awful.
When they did roll calls, if somebody had gotten out of roll
call and ran away, even the inmates would have the same roll
call for hours until that persongot returned.
I'm just going to lay down and then shoot me if you want,
please. I'm not fucking staying in here,
just like I'm not building this person.

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It's going to be a no for me. It's.
Going to be no for me dog. If they were thwarted by a
guard, I could would praise and promote that individual and give
them the day off. The same goes for those who
caught. Them day off after working 20
hours straight. Thanks.
Yes, thanks. They would get the day off in a
commendation. The opposite happened.
If you were found guilty of allowing of or not preventing an

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escape, they'd be severely punished if it was even
suspected the tiniest mistake that led to an escape.
And of course, if it was anotherprisoner assisting in the
escape, their punishments were much worse.
When people returned to camp, IGA had a special tradition that
they would wear a plaque around the neck that said I am back

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while beating a drum. It's like the shame, shame,
cling, shame cling. And of course if it was another
prisoner assisting in escape theyour punishments were much
worse. Oh never mind, sorry.
I already read that at the end of the ghastly parade through
the camp he would give the the inmate 20 lashes and send them

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to a penal colony, which I don'tknow what that entails, but I
didn't want to go down the wormhole.
We talked about 3 specific escapes and they really show you
how determined humans can be in the matters of life or death.
One was a group of seven men that dug a tunnel under their
beds, just one of their beds, and they escaped for a few days.
So one of the guards saw one of the escaped inmates walking the

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streets of Berlin. He was quickly arrested,
interrogated or more like tortured basically, and he got
the other's locations and everybody was brought back to
camp. Man, why you got to be a snake?
I know you got to take one for the crew man.
Yeah, another fella. This one was described as a
professional criminal, but decorated by trade, was assigned

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to work on homes of s s guards with the within the ring of
sentry posts around the camp. There he met the maid of the
doctor of the camp and fell in love.
So of course they devised a planfor him to escape.
He first created a hiding spot in the doctor's home and loaded
it with supplies. Once the escape sirens went off,
he cried. He crawled in with his food,

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wine and a gun and waited, really recalled searching for
the the doctor's home, not knowing the prisoner was mere
feet away with his gun cocked, ready to shoot should he be
discovered. After four days, four days of
guards being on near constant duty in search of him, he
changes some of doctor's clothesand made his way out of the camp
to the train station And on a train destined to Berlin with a

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suitcase full of the docs most valuable items.
He would get caught, unfortunately, because he was
trying to sell those items. Come on dude.
You got to go a little bit further if you're going to
punish it then. Idiom.
He would be returned to camp, ofcourse, and I could be pissed he
even had a gun, but after a hefty payment from the dock, he
let it slide. Some things don't change.

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One last, the last one I'm goingto talk about was a guy who was
working the clay pits digging. He would watch the trains coming
in and out of the camp and how they were searched for days,
just seeing the patterns, seeingwhich ones were out, where were
they looking. He surmised that while they
checked the engine, they did notcheck under the engine, so he

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needed to find a way into that section as there were panels
that went all the way around down to the railroad tracks to
prevent people from getting in there.
He would discover the back panelwas loose and would jump in and
hold on down to ways he'd let goand the train kept going right
over him. Once it passed he got up, ran
into the woods and headed north because he knew his

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disappearance would be noticed quite quickly and he wasn't
wrong. Home home.
He made it through the woods in a cross farm stealing produce
and cow's milk for sustenance and close to blend in.
He would be caught trying to geta get to Denmark in a fishing
boat he stole. As he made his way out into the
water, other fishermen noticed and recognized he was stealing
the boat and captured him. He was this close to freedom.

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He should have just hitched a ride, asked for a ride, swam it.
So let's go on and talk about Auschwitz.
Now. In 1939, Rudy would get a
beautiful Christmas present, a promotion to Commandant of the
protective custody camp at SaxonHousen, and I think you get an
idea of how he changes the colors of events or completely

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glosses over or neglects to mention them at all.
One particular story showcased to me his callous disregard of
humanity. On January 18th, 1940, Host
ordered more than 800 prisoners who were ill and unable to work
to remain standing, all outside in thin prison clothing in a
temperature of -15°F with no jackets, gloves or cold weather

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protection of any kind. They probably didn't last long.
When they collapsed, block elders tried to block elders
tried to take the frozen inmatesto the camp memory, to which
hosts ordered it closed. When he asked why this was
necessary, he replied if the others must free, then these
freeze, then these malingerers can spend the day in the cold
too. So because they're so sick and

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they can't work, you should justbe out here too?
The prisoner who reports the incident, Acapo with supervision
over there, says that when he finally told hosts the men can't
take any more, he received the curt reply.
They aren't men, they are prisoners.
Oh, OK, sorry I got confused. Yeah.
During that day, 78 inmates diedand another 67 died that night.

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The account of this incident is consistent with that of a former
prisoner at Auschwitz who testified that hosts would watch
feedings and hangings if they were watching a movie, but with
no reaction showing in his face.Unfortunately for him, his
promotion to Protective Protective Custody camp leader
would cause some friction with his superior because in January
1940, s s Lawrence would become commandant of the entire camp.

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He was mad at Rudy because he felt like his promotion that got
him to Saxonhausen was somethingRudy had done behind his back
and that now he's like Rudy's working for his arch rival.
Like how dare you? How?
Dare. It was hella petty because he
basically said he didn't, but like the guy saw more potential
than Lawrence had and he wanted to give Rudy more opportunities

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than the dead end Java Dachau. So regardless it would be a
transfer that would lead to his next promotion.
Himmler and the rest of the upper echelon had plans to begin
a new camp in Auschwitz or Ash this time Ashvaisum.
Ashvaisum, that's it, the town. So he visited Rudy and asked him
to become a which caught him offguard.

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He did not expect to become a commandant so fast.
Me, me, me. Real No, especially not
considering there were other s s, senior s s who had
long-awaited a commando pass commandant post become open.
Himmler would give him a urgent and tough task.

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He needed to build a transit camp, they could hold 10,000
prisoners and to add to further difficulty he had to source his
own materials as Germany would not supply any.
So what I need you to do is build this prison, but I'm not
going to give you anything. To do.
I'm not going to give you shit. You're going to figure it
yourself. Go chop some trees down or
something. It is 1940 and Britain and

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France had declared war on Germany the previous fall, so
war is ramping up quickly and violently.
So the invasion. So with the invasion.
Oh sorry, it was 1940. Britain and France had declared
war on Germany the previous fall, so war was ramping up
quickly and violently with the invasion of Denmark and Norway.
And from that point on in Auschwitz, it almost sounds like

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he aimed to create the most hardworking and productive camp
out of all of them whatsoever. He would get up before his
soldiers, s s soldiers, and go to bed after them.
He would treat them and the prisoners with the above average
kindness and support. The only way he could accomplish
a task like this was total cooperation and hard work from
guards and prisoners alike, and that required treating them
better. What you'd No way what he did

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not count on was the variable ofall the personalities and worth
ethics stating. Within a few months, I might
even say the first weeks, I became bitterly aware that all
the goodwill and the best intentions were doomed to be
dashed to pieces against human inadequacy and sheer stupidity
of most of the officers and men posted to me.
And this is like a reoccurring thing he complaints the entire
fucking book about. He didn't have the right people.

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That nobody was as smart as him.Everything would have been just
fine if they had picked out the healthiest juice to work OK and
that they'd get him better people underneath him.
That would have solved it's. Always somebody else's fault.
Somebody else's fault, nothing about all of these murders and
stuff, whatever. Nothing about everything you're
doing is wrong for real. Maybe that's why it didn't work.

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It's here that he starts to distance himself from the
atrocities in specific ways, saying that everyone was working
towards the old hand ways, whichI assume is the intended Nazi
way which is not at all kind to inmates, and that the way he
wanted to run his camp was with better treatment than all the
other concentration camps. Boy, I too want the nicest
concentration camp Superlative. That would be a delight.

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Sir, actions speak louder than words.
You were not being nice to anyone.
He would say how everyone was just too set in their ways,
prisoners included. So that camp was defective from
start, and that's what led to all the devious things that
would eventually come. Vacant blaming too.
Right. He would complain that he
couldn't use political prisoners, only criminals, and

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he was sent 30, to which only eight were of his approval for
the word they anticipated. This is where he also says the
real ruler in his words were theofficers in charge, not the
commandant. There was a first and second
officer in Auschwitz owing to it's size and he blames the lack
of success on his own rapid fur.Regardless of the soldiers, he

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needs to start working on attaining supplies for the 40
square miles they intended to place the camp on.
Rudy would mention that many things were available in Poland
whereas Germany was far more strapped for supplies, which is
why he had his worst on himself.So he's like, he complained
about it. And then he was like, but he was
right. I, I should have known better.

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At one point he talks about writing to this village and the
translator adds a funny remark that the towns he went to were
at most 60 miles from Auschwitz.So, oh, sorry, you had to travel
some foreigner source materials from your literal death camp.
The 30 prisoners who had now been tattooed with numbers one
through 30 were set out to be set out working to clear the old

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Polish camp and to search for supplies.
Many of the buildings there wereold Polish barracks, including
what would be Rudy's home. It was built specifically for a
Polish officer over the previousinstallation.
They would have to MacGyver somethings and scramble for others.
Barbed wire was especially difficult and they end up
sourcing it from old ruins post and such.

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And they would also evacuate zone one of the 40 square miles
and prepare to evacuate the second zone for building.
The first zone had covered threewhole villages, including that a
Birkenau which would be later used in the second phase of
Auschwitz. Rudy would say he was running
himself ragged, insisting on doing everything himself.
He would begrudgingly pass tasksoff to his insubordinates, even

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though he knew they would carry him out in the opposite manner
of which he's used. And you know what?
I feel you there though, Rudy, because I've had that happen in
my life. I have to.
I do understand. It is frustrating, OK.
Sometimes it's hard to delegate when people just won't do it as
good as you. Gluck, which was a senior s s
that was over him, said that Rudy's downfall was trying to do
it all himself, that a commandant should perform 99% of

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his job behind his desk by telephone.
And I'm like, you know what? I like that.
And not the problem with the CEOs nowadays, they sit behind
the desk and tell us what to do and they have no fucking idea
what's. Going on?
Not a clue. Rudy would argue that if they
hadn't sent him, hadn't sent himsuch awful coppos and guards, he
wouldn't have had to do it all himself.
Sad face. He would say that Glove couldn't

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understand as he had never worked in a concentration camp,
stating This is why he could never understand or appreciate
my real needs. OK.
Something closer so unreal that I have to include them.
Absolutely. Rudy decided that after a time,
he needed to either wholly dedicate his time on the task of
building the camp or the inmates, not both.

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So he let the inmates felt welfare to the subornaments
because the camp's construction was a great import.
Cause fuck human life, you know what I mean.
Exactly. A month after their first 30
prisoners, they would receive 728 Polish male political
prisoners, including Catholic priests and Jews.
Upon arrival, the Poles lined upin 5 rows and were met by the
head officer Carl Frisch, who announced You have not come here

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to a sanatorium, but to a Germanconcentration camp, and there's
no other way out than through the chimney of a crematorium.
If one does not like that, then they could throw themselves on
the wire immediately. If there are Jews in the
transport, they are allowed to live no more than two weeks.
Priest one month and the others three months.
He was the epitome. Frisch was the epitome of an
evil Nazi. The gasp I gasped at some of the

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shit he did to people was sickening.
I would highly recommend if you're squeamish you don't
listen to it from here on out because it's just going to get
worse and worse. But also this is a bit of a
wormhole when learning about Frisch because I felt it
necessary considering he we are speaking about Auschwitz.
He is most famously responsible for the death of Maximilian
Colby. Colby, a Franciscan Friar, was

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arrested in 1941 and ended up inAuschwitz as prisoner one
16,670. He would remain practicing as a
priest, despite being verbally and physically abused for it,
and this would lead to his deathin 1941.
That July, a few inmates escaped.
Friesch was especially hard about escapes, to no one's

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surprise, and would torture prisoners, even ones that were
not trying to escape. In this case, he picked 10
prisoners to put in a room and said they would starve until the
prisoner was to return. One guy started screaming.
But I have a wife and children, and Kobe said I'll take his
place. And he did.
And so they locked up the Kobe and the other people, and they

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said that they spent the whole time basically in prayer.
They didn't have water or food. For two weeks.
Kobe and only two others survived.
Miraculously. He remained calm the entire time
of his incarceration, choosing silence or prayer.
So when they decided to inject the remaining three with
carbolic acid, he calmly held his arm up, ready to go.

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He would be martyred by Pope John Paul the Second.
Besides that murder, Frisch was famous for various tortures and
punishments he would happily inflict on prisoners in addition
to terrorizing them by saying things like this.
Direct quote for us. All of you are not human, but a
pile of dung for such enemies that they're Reich as you.
The Germans will have no favor and no mercy.

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We will be delighted to drive you all through the grace of the
crematorium furnaces. Forget your wives, children and
families. Hear you all savor like dogs.
Rudolph credits this man Frisch with the idea of using Cyclone
B, but we're just going to get into that later.
Yay. While Rudy says he was not fond

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of Frisch, his actions deemed otherwise because both were
responsible for horrific things together.
He was responsible for the torture death of victims locked
inside standing cells in the basement of the bunker.
This was Bunker 11 block 11, andit would be in there until they
died. And when I say standing cells,
it was literally like a tiny room and you had like half a

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millimeter between you and a wall.
And eventually, like you'd get tired and your body couldn't
even like you couldn't even foldyour legs.
So imagine how much that would. Hurt, this is really depressing,
sorry. These prisoners would band
together over time and 200 of the 728 would survive the entire

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length of their imprisonment, which is quite impressive
considering it's about 5 years of constant, constant torture,
disease, starvation and work. When reading Rudy's biography,
he doesn't even mention that first transport, just how hard
it is to make a concentration camp with a bunch of goons as
your staff. And that's hard, yo.
By the end of 1940 they had created the zone of interest

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which is the entire where the whole camp sits 40 square miles
and it's constantly patrolled. It's outside the little town of
Auschweissen and it had drastically changed with a tons
of local Poles being forced out and being made to abandon their
homes and that place s s took upresidence as well as many other

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Germans. It was safer to be in the
country as there were a lot of air raids happening in Germ in
Berlin and other major Germantowns, and it had become a
bit of a Stepford with the wivesof the s s of officers being
held in high social regard with great focus on an idyllic German
community. They become.
They had come in part of the general germanization program

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for the ethnically cleansing thearea and developing them for the
Aryan Germans. So get all them fucking Poles
out of here. We're going to Germanize this.
They had huge plans for rapid expansion and major
thoroughfares and stadiums as Germans were known for their
love for physical activity like soccer.
While some like the local theater were realized, the rest

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was abandoned as the camp would eventually be evacuated and
liberated. So while you had upper echelon
soldiers families moving there, you would even have regular
soldiers families relocate and it helped to try to like
normalize life in the town because it's a fucking death
camp. Yeah.

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You know, it's literal crimes against humanity happening, but
like, if we have like parties and stuff, it's normal, right?
Right. And while it's technically
forbidden, S S soldiers would give tours of the camp to their
wives and their girlfriends. No thanks.
Oh, it gets worse. The families of the camp
soldiers use the medical facilities located across from a

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crematorium and so it wasn't unusual to have them in camp.
Hell there we even official campfunctions where you bring your
whole family for ASS Christmas party, a puppet show, or any
other form of entertainment thatthey could drum up.
They even had famous German celebrities come and reform.
Eventually host had to put a rule in to ban unaccompanied
children. Not just ban children, ban

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unaccompanied children. You had baby churons frolicking
in a dead camp. Well, what other way?
You raise the best soldiers and teach them when they're young.
That's the way it is. While visiting, it was normal to
witness families treat prisonersas a form of entertainment.
They're witnesses from 1944 where the Birkenau camp compound

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leader Johann Schwartz Schwarzhuber made prisoners
dance at the electric fence for his family.
On the other side, nothing was off limits for those who did not
have wives. They opened an s s brothel in
1942 after a visit from Pole from the WBHA, which is kind of
like their nucleus of their government, like their their

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death machine government program.
We're going to go in depth on that later, don't worry.
Now, of course, this was a ethnically cleansed brothel with
only German prostitutes. OK?
We were not going to be doing nomakes another races here.
No misses, no countries, no misses a nothing.
Hitler was a great advocate of having brothels first, soldiers

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as well. He was worried they'd become
stuck, starved. We wouldn't want that.
We'd we'd won't starve these inmates of food and water, but I
don't want my soldiers to not get there.
Those balls need to be emptied regularly.
Regularly. However it was colored, things
were getting darker by now. The signature R by to mockify
sign was now bannered above its entrance.

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The slogans introduction to the concentration camps came from
Theodore Ika, from the Dachau concentration camp, and from
Dachau. Rudy said let's do it here.
That sounds like a great idea, meaning that work sets you free,
but with the caveat that freedommeans being free from being
alive. The Auschwitz sign was made by

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prisoner laborers, including Polish master blacksmith Jan Lee
Walks, and it features an upsidedown bee, which is interpreted
as an act of defiance by the prisoners who made it.
There's a slogan that Polish prisoners would be would use
concerning this. Logan Arbit Mike Fry Dirsch
Crematorium. Numer dry work makes you free

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through crematorium #3 and that's where we're going to
leave off this time. That's probably a good time to
take a break. Next time we're going to delve
into some more of the the building of Auschwitz about his.
I think we're going to go into something about his family.
I mean, just like his parents and his sisters, he loved his

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family. Like he actually liked them a
lot more than his original, but he also did not the he kept them
separate, kind of like they did his parents.
Like they were objects, not necessarily people at times.
And then of course, we're going to hear about the Final solution
and how that's handed out and how the concentration camps

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really change from just prisonercamps to fool on death camps.
So let's get excited about that,guys.
Can't wait, can't wait. And until then, you know, find
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two close to home stories. Did you have a secret
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survived the Holocaust? That would be interesting.
I would love to. I mean, honestly, one of the
things that I found was super interesting in my research was
watching the documentary The Commandant Shadow.
And in that documentary, his sonRudolf Host's son meets one of
the women that was in prison in Auschwitz.
And it's just like so interesting to see how they

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interact with each other and to hear from their point of views
and stuff like that. There's always nothing was the
same. There was no every day was the
same. There was no real structure.
Like I said, it was super chaotic.
So every witness will have a different story, right?
And I just, I keep, I can't not read them.
You know what I mean? Oh yeah.
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