What really happened inside the home of the monster of Auschwitz
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 ...
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Auschwitz commandant's daughter relives childhood with 'wonderful dad' Rudolf Hoess
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess oversaw the slaughter of around ... Thomas Harding’s book ‘The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a true story of murder’ will be published by ...
Daily Mail27d
How must it feel to wake up each morning knowing your grandfather was Rudolf Hoss, commandant of Auschwitz and one of the most brutal criminals of the Second World War? ROBERT ...
Recollections vary over what happened next. In his acclaimed book Hanns And Rudolf, author Thomas Harding quotes his great-uncle Captain Hanns Alexander, saying that he thrust a revolver into ...
El País in English25d
Auschwitz in the era of dark tourism
On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, its significance is being trivialized by tourism and popular ...
The Irish Times27d
Holocaust survivor: ‘I saw normal people in Auschwitz and I saw sadists there who killed people’
Eight decades on – after countless books, films, documentaries ... do not explain it. Not even Rudolf Höss, the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz from 1940 to 1943, could do so.
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Otto Küsel: The thief who saved lives in Auschwitz
But Küsel's story has now been immortalized in a book written by writer and journalist ... when the camp was still new and managed by the infamous warden Rudolf Höss. During the first two ...