This documentary meets Hans-Jürgen Höss, the now elderly son of Rudolf, and brings him face to face with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch - a cellist who played in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz ...

In 2023, though, one film managed to stand out. Written and directed by Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest explores the life of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his family ...

Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss had previously worked in SachsenhausenImage: PAP/picture alliance In the immediate vicinity of the Reich capital Berlin, Sachsenhausen played a special role for ...

Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim death camp, who was last week sentenced to death by a Polish military court, will be hanged shortly after the Passc?er holiday on Oswiecim’s one ...

One of the most notorious Nazis in Sachsenhausen was Rudolf Höss, who later became the commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp. He was executed as a war criminal in 1947. To mark the ...

At Auschwitz, the most well-known and infamous of the Nazi concentration camps, commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) oversees the killing factory with ruthless efficiency as his wife Hedwig ...

Talk about range, the last unforgettable performance by Friedel, 46, was as disturbingly calm and ruthless Rudolf Höss, the German commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp in "The Zone of ...

When Rudolf Höss commanded Auschwitz, his children asked him about the smoke rising from the chimney.“It is the Jewish devil blowing away,” he told them. When Furst visited Germany ...

this chilling account of bucolic life alongside the horrors of the Holocaust featured Friedel in the terrifying lead role as Rudolf Höss, a commandant who bifurcates his life between leading his ...