Eldad beck biography of christopher

Rainer Höss led an unremarkable life as a cook in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg until about 10 years ago. There was nothing particularly unusual about the 55-year-old — except that he is the grandson of one of the most monstrous leaders of the National Socialist dictatorship: Rudolf Höss helped set up the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau and was commandant there for more than three years, from May 1940 to November 1943. 

More than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered at the camp.

Rudolf Höss was found guilty of war crimes in 1947 and hanged at the site of the former concentration camp. He displayed no remorse, right up to his death. He personified the unspeakable history of Auschwitz.  

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Numerous sons and daughters and grandchildren of leading Nazis have