Inside the family home, Rudolf Höss – the longest serving SS commandant of Auschwitz – dreamt up the most efficient way to kill the millions of Jews, Roma, ...

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.

Here, he recalls exactly what the daughter of Rudolf Hoess told him about life next door to where more than a million innocents were murdered. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Kai Höss, the grandson of former Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss, speaks with Fox News Digital about antisemitism today and how he reconciles his Christian faith with his grandfather's past.

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.

He read his grandfather’s memoir, “Commandant of Auschwitz,” which chronicles Rudolf Höss’s role in operating Auschwitz, where 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed.

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.

He’s also the grandson of former Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss, a Nazi official who oversaw the mass murder of an estimated 1.1 million people, the majority of them Jews, at the notorious ...

Inside the family home, Rudolf Höss – the longest serving SS commandant of Auschwitz – dreamt up the most efficient way to kill the millions of Jews, Roma, ...

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.