As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who met the family of the mastermind of Auschwitz. Here, he recalls exactly wh ...

one written by the family’s housekeeper and the other by Rudolf Höss himself. This was not out of choice: After his capture and before his execution, Höss was ordered to write his memoir, giving an ...

one written by the family’s housekeeper and the other by Rudolf Höss himself. This was not out of choice: After his capture and before his execution, Höss was ordered to write his memoir ...

he laid it all out in the chillingly clinical memoir he wrote as he awaited his date with the gallows in April 1947. 'No one wants to be Rudolf Höss's grandson,' Kai, 62, tells me over a cup of ...