"And Your Conscience Never Haunted You?" - Manfred Deselaers
The life of Rudolf Höss commanderr of Auschwitz and question of his resposibility befor God and human beeings
KORTE INHOUD
Theformer commander of Auschwitz ended his autobiography in 1947 with the
words: "May the public continue to see in me the bloodthirsty beast, the cruel sadist,
the murderer of millions - for the majority of people would not be able to imagine
the Commander of Auschwitz in any other way. The broad mass of people will never
understand that he also had a heart, that he wasn't evil."
Here lies precisely the problem: Rudolf Höss was not an animal without any
conscience, no "bloodthirsty beast". Höss was not a sick person, unable to assume
responsibility; he was no "cruel sadist". But he was nevertheless the "murderer of
millions". It is because he "had a heart" that he was responsible. For this very
reason we are entitled to ask whether he was "evil".
The heart is the place in the human being where decisions are made about being
open or being closed, where relationships to others and the desire for God are born
and directed. The question concerning the heart therefore is the primary key for
evaluation in this work. The first ...
words: "May the public continue to see in me the bloodthirsty beast, the cruel sadist,
the murderer of millions - for the majority of people would not be able to imagine
the Commander of Auschwitz in any other way. The broad mass of people will never
understand that he also had a heart, that he wasn't evil."
Here lies precisely the problem: Rudolf Höss was not an animal without any
conscience, no "bloodthirsty beast". Höss was not a sick person, unable to assume
responsibility; he was no "cruel sadist". But he was nevertheless the "murderer of
millions". It is because he "had a heart" that he was responsible. For this very
reason we are entitled to ask whether he was "evil".
The heart is the place in the human being where decisions are made about being
open or being closed, where relationships to others and the desire for God are born
and directed. The question concerning the heart therefore is the primary key for
evaluation in this work. The first ...
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