No one wants to be Rudolf Höss's grandson,' Kai, 62, tells me over a cup of tea at his home near Stuttgart. 'Every day I must face the fact that I am descended from the worst mass-murderer in ...

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 ...

The former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, which is being transformed into the Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization, is seen on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, in Oswiecim ...