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 ...

Auschwitz. 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 ...

Rainer Hoess’ reckoning with his family’s past made him ... discuss the actions of his grandfather Rudolf, the longest-serving commander of the Auschwitz death camp. Eloquent and unwavering ...

Adolf Hitler appointed a successor to Rudolf Hess as second in the Nazi line of succession, following porcine Hermann Goring. The world had heard little of the appointee, Martin Bormann ...