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 ...

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 ...

Rudolf Höss during his trial in Warsaw in March 1947. ... He was made to testify at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and was later condemned to death by a Polish tribunal.

Christian Friedel opens up about his haunting turn as Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, in Jonathan Glazer’s masterful ‘The Zone of Interest.’ ...

The US psychologists who evaluated Rudolf Hoess in Nuremberg had found him to be without signs of mental illness such as psychopathy. In his memoir, ...

The surviving Höss family continued to put a distance between themselves and what Rudolf Höss had done. His wife Hedwig and daughter Brigitte moved to the United States following his execution.

From Georg Elsner in 13 Minutes to Rudolf Höss in The Zone of Interest, you’ve really covered the full range of recent German history. It started with The White Ribbon .

Rudolf Höss, born in Baden-Baden ... In a signed affidavit read aloud at his trial at Nuremberg, Höss confessed to studying the most efficient means of mass killing, concluding that methods in ...

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.

Loosely inspired by the late Martin Amis’s 2014 novel, it centers on the Höss family — Rudolf (Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) ...

Rudolf Höss during his trial in Warsaw in March 1947. ... He was made to testify at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and was later condemned to death by a Polish tribunal.