Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest—a fictionalized study of the domestic life of Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp commandant whose family lived right beside his ...

Oświęcim, Poland (CNN) — With its manicured garden and spacious interior, the three-story villa was once described as “paradise” by the mother who raised her five children there. And much was done to ...

Sandra Hüller as Hedwig Höss in The Zone of Interest The popularity of historical dramas in film and on television has caused much controversy, as historians take issue with fictional scripts being ...

Jonathan Glazer’s new film uses the Auschwitz commandant and his family as a vehicle for examining humans’ capacity for evil Based on a True Story Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, ...

In “The Zone of Interest,” the Oscar-winning drama about life adjacent to Auschwitz, the children of Rudolf Höss, the Nazi concentration camp’s commandant, are only dimly aware of the horrors ...

Mark Wallace, the CEO of the Counter Extremism Project, speaks to reporters in the former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, which is being transformed into the Auschwitz Center on Hate, ...

In a Stuttgart classroom in the 1970s, seventh-grader Kai Höss learned something that would change his life. A teacher was reading from a history textbook about the Holocaust when the name “Rudolf ...

The film follows Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, who was convicted of war crimes following the end of WWII. He committed unspeakable horrors, essentially overseeing mass murder of the Jewish people, ...

The German actor who plays Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss (as a "boring bureaucrat") in Jonathan Glazer's Oscar-nominated drama on why he twice turned down the role of Adolf Hitler and would really ...

OSWIECIM, Poland — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to the public on ...