Höss

"Rudolf Höss, the commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, was undoubtedly the greatest mass murderer known to history. Yet his autobiography reveals a rather normal, pedestrian bourgeois existence. In the same breath in which he acknowledges himself a professional killer, he also describes a normal family life, tells of his kindness to children and his fondness for animals. In one passage his Jewish prisoners march to their death surrounded by flowering apple trees and the beauties of springtime."

-- The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich, George L. Mosse, 1964, p. 310.