(JTA) — About a decade ago, Rainer Hoess began making media appearances to discuss the actions of his grandfather Rudolf, the longest-serving commander of the Auschwitz death camp. Eloquent and ...

His descendant Rudolf Hess, the Auschwitz commander, was responsible for the extermination of roughly 400,000 Hungarian Jews at the death camp in June 1944. BUDAPEST (JTA) — Rainer Hoess ...

In his memoirs, Rudolf Höss wrote of the murders that took place that spring of 1942: "It was most important that the whole business of arriving and undressing should take place in an atmosphere ...