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Rudolph Höss was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer and the longest serving commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He oversaw the murder over one million people, the majority of whom were Jews.

After the war, Rudolph was tried, convicted of crimes against humanity and executed by hanging in 1947 on the grounds Auschwitz.

His grandson—Kai Höss—didn’t learn about his grandfather’s dark past until he was a teen. He now speaks to students and Jewish groups about Rudolph’s barbaric crimes.

Kai Höss can’t remember if he was in sixth or seventh grade on the day he learned that his grandfather Rudolph Höss, a German SS officer during World War II, was likely the greatest mass murderer in human history.

But the now 63-year-old evangelical pastor from Stuttgart , Germany, ca

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