Among the sources of information which served as a reference for the team of Jonathan Glazer's film to reconstruct the daily life of Rudolf Höss, his wife Hedwig and their five children in the elegant house they occupied between May 1940 and November 1944 at Auschwitz, there is one of the first order: the color photos of the villa garden.
These astonishing images of a flowery “paradise”, located on the other side of the concentration camp wall and over which the terrifying Hedwig Hensel Höss passionately watched over, are part of the Höss Fund.
A collection of personal correspondence, objects and notes, deposited in 2010 by Rainer Höss, the war criminal's grandson, at the Munich Institute of Contemporary History (IFZ).
Contacted by
Le Figaro
, the latter, born in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart in 1965 and author of a book (*) on his family, its violence and the silence in which he was raised regarding his grandfather (judged and hanged in 1947), nevertheless reveals to have been
“neither consulted…
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