"In those days, Argentina was a kind of paradise to us." Even before World War II, Argentina was closely linked to Nazi Germany thanks to the large number of German immigrants living in the country.

She confirmed that Rudolf was his grandfather — and a Nazi SS officer and Auschwitz commandant who was responsible for the deaths of 1.1 million people, mostly Jews.

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.

One of the most notorious Nazis in Sachsenhausen was Rudolf Höss, who later became the commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp. He was executed as a war criminal in 1947.

COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ (285 pp.) —Rudolf Hoess, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon—World ($4.50). Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, Nazi SS captain, may have been the most monstrous executioner ...

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.

The former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, which is being transformed into the Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization, is seen on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, in Oswiecim, Poland.

In the 2024 Oscar-winning film The Zone of Interest, director Jonathan Glazer depicts the everyday family life of Rudolf Höss, the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, his wife Hedwig and their five ...

As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who met the family of the mastermind of Auschwitz. Here, he recalls ...