A review by painterz
Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding

5.0

The quote from the psychologist who interviewed Hoss while he was in prison stayed with me:

"His character is that of the amoral psychopath, which in itself, and correlated with his personal development history, indicates a dearth of parental love and unconscious hostility towards the father. Secondly, there is the influence of National Socialism, which enabled this sadistic psychopath to commit unprecedented inhumanities in a framework of apparent social and political respectability."



A social framework, that allows psychopaths to operate in apparent social and political respectability. Well, there's a sign of our times, and a sheer stark warning of where we are going.