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.

Kai Höss grew up knowing little about his family’s past. When he was in fifth grade, though, he stumbled upon a name in his history book that haunted him: Rudolf Höss, the infamous commandant ...

Warner Bros. has announced a release date for The Commandant's Shadow, a documentary about the real-life Höss family from Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest. Per Deadline, Fathom Events is ...

Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim death camp, who was last week sentenced to death by a Polish military court, will be hanged shortly after the Passc?er holiday on Oswiecim’s one ...

Rudolf Francis Ferdinand Hoess, a stocky, 47-year-old Nazi, stood stolidly in Warsaw’s Supreme Court one day last week to hear his sentence. One of the court’s officials asked him ...

The grandson of a notorious Auschwitz commandant and the grandson of Holocaust survivors came to Eckerd College, sharing ...

Since the autumn of 1941, Höss and his colleagues had been experimenting with the use of Zyklon B to kill Soviet POWs and the sick in the camp's crematorium, which stood near his office.

NARRATOR: All the time Hoss was killing women and children at Auschwitz he was also living with his own family, just yards from the main camp. RUDOLPH HOSS: "When I saw my children happily play ...

In his memoirs, Rudolf Höss wrote of the murders that took place that spring of 1942: "It was most important that the whole business of arriving and undressing should take place in an atmosphere ...