There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.

- Rudolf Hoss

Learn to think and judge for yourself, responsibly. Don't accept everything without criticism and as absolutely true, everything which is brought to …

- Rudolf Hoss

Burning 2000 people took about 24 hours in the five stoves. Usually we could manage to cremate only about 1700 to 1800. We were thus always behind in…

- Rudolf Hoss

Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by…

- Rudolf Hoss

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners w…

- Rudolf Hoss

One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whis…

- Rudolf Hoss

We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, when it was woven into special …

- Rudolf Hoss