As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who met the family of the mastermind of Auschwitz. Here, he recalls exactly wh ...

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, homosexuals and political prisoners ...

Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess oversaw the slaughter of around 1.1 million Jews, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of ...

Once a 'paradise' occupied by commandant Rudolf Höss, the center will now host research, education, professional training, policy advocacy, and art ...

The villa of Rudolf Höss, Auschwitz’s longest-serving commandant, is being transformed into a research centre dedicated to ...

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, homosexuals and political prisoners that the ...

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.

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to ...

The history of the man who pioneered Zyklon B and the industrialisation of the Holocaust ...