QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS
1. What does Höss claim to be his attitude toward the Jews!
2. What distinctions, if any, does Höss make between the Russians and the Jews that
he had exterminated?
3. What was Höss's attitude toward the Final Solution? How does Höss character-
ize his role in the mass extermination of the Jews?
4. How did his involvement in the Holocaust affect him personally? How, according
to Höss, did it affect other German participants?
5. What would you describe as the key components of Höss's personality? To what
extent was his personality shaped by Nazi philosophy?
6. What insight does this excerpt provide about the issue of how much the German
people knew of and participated in the Holocaust?

Respuesta :

1. Hoss said that he did not hate the Jews but he saw them as enemies to his country.

2. The distinctions that he made between these people is that he believed that socialist ideas were better off than the ideas of the Jews.

3. Hoss was in support of the final solution which was the extermination of the Jewish people. Although he said that he felt pity sometimes but he had to follow orders from his superiors.

4. According to the trials, the person always appeared cool and calm at all times. He still carried on like normal despite what he was doing.

5. His personality would be mean, unkind and also he would be a person that loved to follow rules.

6. This goes to show that the Germans knew to a great extent about the holocaust and also participated in it.

What was the holocaust?

This was the ethnical cleansing of the people of Jewish ancestry all through Europe.

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