When Christian Friedel was preparing to play Rudolf Höss, the real-life Nazi commandant at Auschwitz who’s the alarmingly opaque protagonist of “The Zone of Interest,” he discovered an ...

Rudolf Höss, born in Baden-Baden ... In a signed affidavit read aloud at his trial at Nuremberg, Höss confessed to studying the most efficient means of mass killing, concluding that methods in ...

Christian Friedel was overcome with shame. Days before playing Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, in Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, the German actor ...

Rudolf Höss during his trial in Warsaw in March 1947. ... He was made to testify at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and was later condemned to death by a Polish tribunal.

The US psychologists who evaluated Rudolf Hoess in Nuremberg had found him to be without signs of mental illness such as psychopathy. In his memoir, ...

Loosely inspired by the late Martin Amis’s 2014 novel, it centers on the Höss family — Rudolf (Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) and their children — a seemingly ordinary ...

After the war, Höss was captured by a Nazi hunter and stood trial at Nuremberg, where he admitted to the mass killings and was subsequently sentenced to death. Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The ...

Loosely inspired by the late Martin Amis’s 2014 novel, it centers on the Höss family — Rudolf (Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) and their children — a seemingly ordinary ...

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.

Rudolf Hoess was the Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War II. Under his command it is estimated that at least 1.1 million people died in the camp.

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.

Rudolf Höss during his trial in Warsaw in March 1947. ... He was made to testify at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and was later condemned to death by a Polish tribunal.