Kai Höss: My grandfather, the Commandant of Auschwitz

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  My name is Kai Hös.

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  I am standing here, before you,

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  with a family legacy that brings with it an immense burden and responsibility.

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  I am the grandson of Rudolf Hös, the notorious commandant of Auschwitz,

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  who is responsible for the cold-blooded industrial murder of 1.2 million Jewish people and countless others.

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  I'm Sharoma Silva and this is the documentary on the BBC World Service.

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  For this episode of Heart and Soul, which looks at personal stories of faith,

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  I'm speaking to Kai Huss to learn how,

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  against the backdrop of his grandfather's crimes,

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  he's seeking reconciliation with Jewish communities throughout the world.

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  My grandfather was the greatest mass murderer in human history.

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  He was the architect.

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  of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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  He built it from scratch, instructed or ordered by Himmler, obviously by the Führer,

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  to build this super extermination factory where you could murder people at an industrial scale.

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  And he handled all the operational aspects to make this murder machine as effective as possible.

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  I've heard this expression that he was the greatest mass murderer in history.

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  Surely there's Stalin, other people like that.

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  Stalin and Mao, there's a lot of people throughout history.

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  You could call it political ideologies,

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