His mother, Hedwig, only learned of Rudolf’s crimes five years into her marriage to one of his sons, Hans-Jürgen Höss. He dismissed it as “water under the bridge,” but his silence poisoned ...

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.

Kai Höss — grandson of Rudolf Höss, the infamous commandant of Auschwitz — visits the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague with his son, Samuel Ethan, in June 2023.

Die Dokumentation »Der Schatten des Kommandanten« porträtiert Hans-Jürgen Höss. Er ist der Sohn jenes Mannes, der in Auschwitz die Tötungsmaschinerie am Laufen hielt »Mein Vater war Rudolf Höß, ...

Every day Rudolf Höss oversaw the killing of thousands of people at the death camp and then went home and acted like a doting father to his family. Höss was brought in by top Nazis to pioneer ...

Rudolf Höß, Kommandant des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz, lebte direkt daneben mit seiner Familie. Nun gehört das Haus einer Organisation, die Extremismus bekämpft.

Gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann Rudolf Höß, dem Kommandanten des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz und ihren vier Kindern Heidetraut, Ingebrigitt (von ihrem Vater „Püppi“ genannt), Hans-Jürgen und ...

Hans-Jürgen Höss, who died last month aged 88, maintained that facade when he revisited the former family home in the 2024 documentary The Commandant’s Shadow.

Rudolf Höß war als Kommandant des KZ Auschwitz für den Mord von einer Million Juden verantwortlich. Wie er mit diesem Familienerbe lebt, was ihn gerettet hat, erzählt sein Enkel Kai Höss aus ...

Just the other day, a local technical college near Stuttgart, Germany, rang Kai Höss with alarming news. Someone had been etching swastikas on the doors of the loos. This followed a number of ...

Höss was hanged from the gallows between the camp and his house in 1947. The surviving Höss family continued to put a distance between themselves and what Rudolf Höss had done.