They didn't know what was going to happen to them." After the war while he awaited trial, Rudolf Höss wrote about the process of murder in the converted cottages in the Spring of 1942.

He’s also the grandson of former Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss, a Nazi official who oversaw the mass murder of an estimated 1.1 million people, the majority of them Jews, at the notorious ...

Rudolf Höss, born in Baden-Baden to a Catholic ... In a signed affidavit read aloud at his trial at Nuremberg, Höss confessed ...