Auschwitz commandant's daughter relives childhood with 'wonderful dad' Rudolf Hoess

Auschwitz commandant's daughter describes Rudolf Hoess as 'wonderful dad'  Source: Thomas Harding

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00:00The weekend was wonderful anyway because my dad was home and he was just like a

00:09wonderful dad and he smoked a cigar and walked through the whole house so it was

00:14Sunday and he was very happy he didn't have to go to work he could stay with

00:21his family but he didn't even know what his work was really. He wrote a book, your

00:31father wrote a book. Yes. The autobiography and you couldn't read it.

00:35No. Why not? The pain we went through and what they did with him when they caught him. Yeah.

00:45You know all the pain what was going on in his life. Yeah. My mom's life and

00:52obviously eventually in our life but I think I pushed it away a little bit.