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Auschwitz I site. The house located at the edge of the camp was taken over by the SS and turned into the villa of the commandant. Rudolf Höss lived there with his wife Hedwig and their four children: Klaus, Heidetraut, Inge-Brigitt, and Hans. His fifth child, Annegret, was born on 7 November 1943 (in a family picture). This is one of the hardest warnings from the history of Auschwitz coming to us today. The perpetrators were people who accepted an ideology that led them to believe they were superior to others. This ideology became part of their everyday lives in Nazi Germany. The perpetrators were people: fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters. They were farmers, doctors, bakers, bankers, architects, or carpenters. They had their family joys and problems, favorite desserts or songs, hobbies or fears. They were people like us. But they also perpetrated horrible, monstrous acts on behalf of the ideology they believed in. Dehumanizing all the „others” was a tool that helped them achieve their goal. Learn more about the SS garrison of Auschwitz: Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2021-zaloga-en/ Podcast: youtu.be/JzoG7-iuh8o --- (Photo by: instagram.com/wildbastet_ )