On 15 April 1946, Rudolf Höss provided his testimony at Nuremberg. In its candor and detail regarding the mechanics of the Final Solution it changed the course of the trial. Rudolf Höss ...

Auschwitz commandant Hoess was only called as a witness in Nuremberg but was later convicted and executed in Poland. Hitler's similarly named deputy, Rudolf Hess, was sentenced to life in prison.

The interrogation of Rudolf Höss, Auschwitz’s murderous commandant, had ended for the day at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg in 1946 when George Sakheim, an interpreter at the Nazi war ...

Richard Sonnenfeldt talked about his memoir [Witness to Nuremberg], published by Arcade Publishing. At age 22, this bilingual Army private became chief interpreter and a key interrogator of Nazi ...

Instead, it comes from one of history’s greatest mass murderers, Rudolf Hoess, ... Graner entered a “Nuremberg defense” -- arguing that he was acting on orders of his superiors.

“Hanns and Rudolf” is one of those true stories that illuminates a small justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust, an event so huge and heinous that there can be no ultimate justice.

Rudolf Höss, born in Baden-Baden to a Catholic family in 1901, a lonely child with no playmates of his age, ... Höss testified at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

When Christian Friedel was preparing to play Rudolf Höss, the real-life Nazi commandant at Auschwitz who’s the alarmingly opaque protagonist of “The Zone of Interest,” he discovered an ...

NUREMBERG, Germany — American prosecutor Whitney R. Harris gazed at the top Nazis in front of him — men like Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Julius Streicher — as their war-crimes trial opened ...

BERLIN (AP) — Seventy-five years ago, the dock of Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice was packed with some of the most nefarious figures of the 20th Century: Hermann Goering, Rudolf ...

Christian Friedel was overcome with shame. Days before playing Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, in Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, the German actor ...