The Jewish store owner who had escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 found out about Höss’ family history, but kept her on. “The one has nothing to do with the other. She is a human being,” the son ...

Christian Friedel opens up about his haunting turn as Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, in Jonathan Glazer’s masterful ‘The Zone of Interest.’ ...

Christian Friedel was overcome with shame. Days before playing Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, in Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, the German actor ...

In 7th grade history, Kai Höss learned that his grandfather, Rudolf Höss, was Nazi SS officer and Auschwitz commandant who was responsible for the deaths of 1.1 million people, mostly Jews.

An 80-year-old woman who spent decades working as a fashionista in Washington D.C. has revealed herself as the daughter of Rudolf Hoess, the infamous designer and commandant of the Auschwitz death ...

When originally published, this story included a photo of high-ranking Nazi Rudolf Hess, rather than Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess. That photo has been removed from the story. Nov 06, 2019 11: ...

The Zone of Interest is based on the real life story of Rudolf Höss, who along with his wife and five children lived just outside the walls of the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

After Nazi Germany's defeat in the Second World War in 1945, Höss evaded capture for nearly a year before being arrested. Höss testified at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

BERLIN (AP) — Rainer Hoess was 12 years old when he found out his grandfather was one of the worst mass murderers in history. The gardener at his boarding school, an Auschwitz survivor, beat … ...

Kai Höss grew up knowing little about his family’s past. When he was in fifth grade, though, he stumbled upon a name in his history book that haunted him: Rudolf Höss, the infamous commandant ...

Rudolf Hoess was in charge of Auschwitz from May 1940 to November 1943. He came back to Auschwitz for a short stint in 1944, to oversee the murder of some 400,000 Hungarian Jews in the camp's gas ...