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 ...

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.

In his memoirs, Rudolf Höss wrote of the murders that took place that spring of 1942: "It was most important that the whole business of arriving and undressing should take place in an atmosphere ...

Eine amerikanische Stiftung gegen Extremismus hat die ehemalige Villa des Auschwitz-Kommandanten Rudolf Höß gekauft. Das Haus direkt neben dem früheren deutschen Konzentrations- und ...