The German-language film, listed as a U.K. production that was filmed on location in Poland, earned five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. It also landed Best Director and Best ...

The historical Höss used the slave labor of Jewish and other prisoners to transform a former army barracks in the Polish town of Oświęcim into a parent camp and administration center; he identified a ...

Oświęcim, Poland (CNN) — With its manicured garden and spacious interior, the three-story villa was once described as “paradise” by the mother who raised her five children there. And much was done to ...

The Zone of Interest focuses on Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his family's attempt to live a seemingly ordinary life alongside the unspeakable evil of the Holocaust. Höss is portrayed ...

Visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site in Poland can spot homes not far from the former camp's perimeters. When I visited Auschwitz in 2022, I was a bit stupefied — who, I thought, could ...

Jonathan Glazer’s new film uses the Auschwitz commandant and his family as a vehicle for examining humans’ capacity for evil Based on a True Story Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, ...

Discovering his grandfather Rudolph Höss was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp turned Kai Höss into an ...

COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ (285 pp.) —Rudolf Hoess, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon—World ($4.50). Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, Nazi SS captain, may have been the most monstrous executioner in ...