About this episode
The episode discusses Jonathan Glazer's film 'The Zone of Interest', which portrays the life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss and the stark contrast between his family's comfort and the horrors of the concentration camp.
Send us Fan Mail Jonathan Glazer's 2023 critically acclaimed film The Zone of Interest follows the life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss and his family as they go about their daily lives, right next to the infamous concentration camp. It shows the unsettling juxtaposition between the comfort felt by the well off Hoss family, and the atrocities committed just over the other side of the wall. In reality, this was very much the case: Nazi officials of all ranks simply went about their ...
Topics covered
- Nazi Germany
- Auschwitz
- family life
- atrocities
- film analysis
Keywords
- Hitler
- Auschwitz
- Rudolf Hoss
- The Zone of Interest
- Jonathan Glazer
- Nazi officials
- film
- atrocities
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Zone of Interest
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