SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Rudolf Hoess is seen in Warsaw on March 11, 1947, the first day of his trial for war crimes committed at Auschwitz concentration camp, of which he was the first commandant.

This was not just any house. It is the villa where the commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoess lived with his wife and five children – including Brigitte, who lived there until she was 11 years old.

The grandson of Rudolf Hoess, the infamous commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp, speaks to Canadian students about the lessons of the Holocaust.

On April 15, 1946, Rudolf Höss testified at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders. To a silent courtroom, he matter-of-factly confessed to having “personally supervised executions” at Auschwitz.

Hans Jürgen Höss had a happy upbringing alongside his siblings and his parents Rudolf and Hedwig, and at age 87, he claims that he knew little about what was going on outside the family’s ...

Rudolf Höss did humanity one service. He helped detail some of the vast criminal intentions of the Nazis. And that might not have happened but for the efforts of the man who tracked Höss down.

Silke Wünsch 03/11/2024 Starring Sandra Hüller, the Oscar-winning "The Zone of Interest," about Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss, takes the unspeakable to a whole new level.

The home of the death camp’s wartime commandant, Rudolf Höss, which was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie “The Zone of Interest,” will soon welcome visitors.

Rainer Hoess was 15 years old when he realized his family had secrets — enormous, dark secrets.A young boy in Germany at the time, he was on a school trip to the Dachau Concentration Camp when he ...

Rainer Hoess, grandson of Nazi Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz, is shown at Northern Secondary School after speaking to students about his grandfather’s infamous legacy.