Glazer

“I'd seen some photos of Höss and his family splashing around in the pool and having nice afternoons in the garden - and that's what the prisoners would have heard, the joy of children swimming on a summer's day.'

“For me, this is not a film about the past. It’s trying to be about now, and about us and our similarity to the perpetrators, not our similarity to the victims.”

Jonathan Glazer



"The home of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, was referred to as a 'paradise' by his wife Hedwig. It was a villa surrounded by a walled garden and high trees which sat on the corner of the death camp''.