Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest—a fictionalized study of the domestic life of Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp commandant whose family lived right beside his ...

Octogenarian Hans Jürgen Höss reminisces, “I had a really lovely and idyllic childhood in Auschwitz,” in the first of countless startling moments from Daniela Völker’s deeply moving documentary, “The ...

The German actor who plays Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss (as a "boring bureaucrat") in Jonathan Glazer's Oscar-nominated drama on why he twice turned down the role of Adolf Hitler and would really ...

It’s Rudy’s birthday and his children guide him, blindfolded, down a set of stairs to the garden. There, in the grass, by the small swimming pool, near the greenhouse, is a canoe. He can’t sit in it, ...

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 in ...

In a Stuttgart classroom in the 1970s, seventh-grader Kai Höss learned something that would change his life. A teacher was reading from a history textbook about the Holocaust when the name “Rudolf ...

Rudolf Hoess was the Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War II. Under his command it is estimated that at least 1.1 million people died in the camp. He took great pride in the ...

OSWIECIM, Poland — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to the public on ...

With its manicured garden and spacious interior, the three-story villa was once described as “paradise” by the mother who raised her five children there. And much was done to preserve the household’s ...

Downstairs, there was a kitchen. Then there was a living room; there was a dining room, a guest room, I think. On the second floor, there were all the bedrooms.” This is Brigitte Hoess talking. Her ...