Rudolf Höss, the man who ran the most notorious Nazi death camp, was his grandfather. “I was shocked, and I was ashamed,” Höss said. “Who wants to have a man like that as your grandfather? It was just ...

The surviving Höss family continued to put a distance between themselves and what Rudolf Höss had done. His wife Hedwig and daughter Brigitte moved to the United States following his execution.

Preservation Liberation Day Is Here The Zone of Interest is a movie depicting the lifestyle of Auschwitz-Birkenau commandant Rudolf Höss and his family, who resided just beside the concentration ...

He questions how anti-Semitism thrived in Christian societies and his grandfather’s early life in a devout Catholic family. Awaiting execution at Nuremberg in 1947, Rudolf Höss returned to ...