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Christian Friedel as Rudolf Höss, the camp commander of Auschwitz, in "The Zone of Interest."
  • The "Zone of Interest" won Academy Awards for best international feature and best sound.
  • In his review, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner says the film is the most unusual — and best — film about the Holocaust.
  • By never showing the violence, the director Jonathan Glazer creates an unsettling vision of mass murder.

This column by Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, originally appeared in WELT, another Axel Springer publication. A translated version appears below. The views expressed are his own.