A Nazi's photo album shows top officers at Auschwitz singing, socializing, and lighting a Christmas tree at a time when hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed in the concentration camp.

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 ...

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, Poland.

Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess oversaw the slaughter of around 1.1 million Jews, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of thousands of Polish and Russian political prisoners. Metres away, his ...

New Auschwitz research center to bring music to notorious Nazi’s reclaimed home Once a ‘paradise’ occupied by commandant Rudolf Höss, the center will now host research, education ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to the… ...