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Friday, July 12, 2024

Dis kitty!!! (dieses Kätzchen)

What dis cat think about? Curious if German cats are so confident that the Nazis will never take over again that they just nap all day contentedly?

"The first shock delivered by this engrossing documentary is probably the queasy jolt of recognition. Hans Jürgen Höss, the now elderly son of the Nazi Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss (who was executed in 1947), is taken to see his childhood home: the wartime house with its 'paradise flower garden' just next to the camp, where the Höss family lived their grotesquely placid and innocent existence, all unaware – or so they said – of what was going on just over the wall. This is the house and garden re-created in detailed replica not far from the original site by film-maker Jonathan Glazer and production designer Chris Oddy for the chilling, Oscar-winning film The Zone of Interest..."

~ Peter Bradshaw

"The Commandant’s Shadow review" 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/11/the-commandants-shadow-review-holocaust-survivor-meets-hoss-family-rudolf-hoss-daniela-volker

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