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 ...

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.

I read a bit of Höss’ biography, and I listened to his voice online from the Nuremberg trials, ... From Georg Elsner in 13 Minutes to Rudolf Höss in The Zone of Interest, ...

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 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 ...

After the war, Höss was captured by a Nazi hunter and stood trial at Nuremberg, where he admitted to the mass killings and was subsequently sentenced to death. Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The ...

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

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

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, ...

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

Rudolf Hoess was the Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War II. Under his command it is estimated that at least 1.1 million people died in the camp.

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.