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future.\the departments concerned will be notified by me in due course. you will treat this order as absolutely secret, even from your superiors. after your talk with eichmann you will immediately forward to me the plans for the projected installations.\the jews are the sworn enemies of the german people and must be eradicated. every jew that we can lay our hands on is to be destroyed now during the war, without exception. if we cannot now obliterate the biological basis of jewry, the jews will one day destroy the german people.\on receiving these grave instructions, i returned forthwith to auschwitz, without reporting to my superior at oranienburg.source: rudolf höss, commandant of auschwitz: the autobiography of rudolf höss (cleveland: world publishing co., 1960).part b questions:1. (2 points) type of source: (video, diary, article)2. (3 points) sources author/creator:3. (5 points) how do you think this sources origin and intended audience affects the information it contains?4. (5 points) 5 key facts/details from source:5. (5 points) what do those details teach you about the experience of jews at auschwitz?6. (5 points) on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being \very unreliable\ and 10 being \very reliable,\ how would you rate this document/ interviews reliability as a source of historical information? why would you give it this rating?

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1. Article
2. Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz
3. - The speaker orders secrecy even from superiors and demands plans for projected installations after talking with Eichmann.

• The speaker states Jews are the sworn enemies of Germans and must be eradicated entirely.
• The speaker orders the destruction of every Jew accessible during the war, no exceptions.
• The speaker claims if the biological basis of Jewry isn't eliminated, Jews will destroy Germans.
• The recipient returned to Auschwitz immediately without reporting to their Oranienburg superior.