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 met the family of the mastermind of Auschwitz. Here, he recalls exactly wh ...
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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 ...
He was Kai's grandfather Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz ... A previously unpublished testimony from Werner Haas of 92 Field Security Section, which made the arrest, paints a slightly ...
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Survivors return as world remembers Auschwitz 80 years after liberation
About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was finally liberated on 27 January 1945. They will be joined by heads of state ...
Holocaust survivor: ‘I saw normal people in Auschwitz and I saw sadists there who killed people’
The legal struts of these principles were forged in the Allied-run Nuremberg trials of surviving Nazis, including international law and human rights. Germany’s postwar Basic Law or constitution ...
Holocaust survivors recall horrors of Auschwitz as Prince William and Kate attend London memorial
On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, 98-year-old survivor Marian Turski addresses the commemoration in Poland.
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National Holocaust Museum in Laxton, Nottinghamshire, commemorates 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
An expert curator talk, ‘For a better future?’, exploring treasured artefacts and Holocaust survivor testimony will start the day at 11:00. Later, great friend and Nottingham local ...
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Survivors return as world remembers Auschwitz 80 years after liberation
Heinrich Himmler, supreme chief of the dreaded SS, and camp commandant Rudolf Höss oversaw the expansion ... opportunity to hear a recorded survivor testimony, because by learning from survivors ...
Holocaust Memorial Day - latest: Kate joins William at event as King issues warning on Auschwitz anniversary
Charles becomes first British head of state to visit former death camp, while it is announced Princess of Wales will join ...
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Holocaust survivors recall horrors of Auschwitz as Prince William and Kate attend London memorial
Buckingham Palace says the King will focus on the testimony of survivors ... It was the idea of camp commandant Rudolf Höss who had seen it at the concentration camp at Dachau in Germany.
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National Holocaust Museum in Laxton commemorates 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
An expert curator talk, ‘For a better future?’, exploring treasured artefacts and Holocaust survivor testimony will start the day at 11:00. Later, great friend and Nottingham local ...