(JTA) — About a decade ago, Rainer Hoess began making media appearances to discuss the actions of his grandfather Rudolf, the longest-serving commander of the Auschwitz death camp. Eloquent and ...

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 ...

The reasons behind the Extermination Program seemed to me right.” – Memoirs of Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz To deal with the mounting number of bodies, the SS enlisted Jewish ...

Höss is unremarkably human ... The ideological motivation of Nazi antisemitism is alluded to, but not discussed. The victims are not so much de-personalized as not personalized at all.

In a cinema in south-west Germany, an audience is gathered to watch an Oscar-winning film, The Zone of Interest, about the life of Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz. Those present comprise ...

NARRATOR: Rudolf Hoss, the man who had been ... of such cruel acts impossible for all time." Höss wrote detailed notes on his role at Auschwitz while he was awaiting trial. This report looks ...

NARRATOR: After the war, while he awaited trial, Rudolf Hoss wrote ... The testimony of survivors from Auschwitz tells of the selection process at Auschwitz. Rudolph Höss’ written testimony ...

A sickly scrawny man in a striped uniform takes a shaving brush and foam, and with a sharp blade, he shaves the back of the head of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz camp himself.