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.

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 ...

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.

The Dresden, Germany-based actor and musician fashioned Rudolf Höss as an executive on the rise: he’s a snappy dresser who’s efficient and knows how to get the most out of his employees and … ...

Born to Catholic parents in Germany in 1900, Rudolf fought in World War I before joining a nationalist paramilitary group. He first heard Adolf Hitler speak in 1922, and he joined the Nazi Party ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism Vanessa Gera Monday 27 January 2025 04:41 GMT ...

Here, he recalls exactly what the daughter of Rudolf Hoess told him about life next door to where more than a million innocents were murdered. ... My Jewish family was forced to flee Nazi Germany.

In the spring of 1940, Captain Rudolf Höss of the SS journeyed through Poland to take up the job of Commandant of a new Nazi concentration camp. Höss was travelling to the outskirts of the town ...

Kai Höss — grandson of Rudolf Höss, the infamous commandant of Auschwitz — visits the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague with his son, Samuel Ethan, in June 2023. (Courtesy of Kai Höss) By Sydney Page ...