AUSCHWITZ: Inside The Nazi State Surprising Beginnings: Episode 1 In the spring of 1940, Captain Rudolf Höss of the SS journeyed through Poland to take up the job of Commandant of a new Nazi ...

Irma Grese was one of 170 female SS staff at Auschwitz. She was just 20 years old in 1943, and her combination of beauty and cruelty was to make her notorious.

Revealed: The SS monsters who played sport and enjoyed film nights while absolving themselves of the industrial slaughter inside Auschwitz - as the world marks 80 years since the liberation of the ...

For two years, SS officer Oskar Gröning served in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He counted the money of dead Jews and stood guard as incoming freight trains unloaded their wretched human cargo.

German SS guards – there were more than 5,000 of them stationed at Auschwitz – selected new arrivals for the gas chambers or camp labour. Most Jews were sent immediately to the gas chambers.

Auschwitz survivor Hedy Bohm, from Toronto, Canada, talks to media during a news conference organized by the International Auschwitz Committee on the eve of a trial against SS guard Oskar Groening in ...

In 7th grade history, Kai Höss learned that his grandfather, Rudolf Höss, was Nazi SS officer and Auschwitz commandant who was responsible for the deaths of 1.1 million people, mostly Jews.

While perhaps 1,000 camp personnel faced trials in other countries, a now-united Germany has convicted fewer than 50 of the estimated 6,000 to 7,000 SS who served at Auschwitz and survived the war ...

AN SS guard unmasked by The Sun as the ‘last Nazi’ has died – bringing to an end the historic hunt for Holocaust war criminals. Gregor Formanek, 100, was dubbed “cruel and treacherous&#… ...