The former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss has been transformed into a ... He was tried by a Polish court and was executed by hanging at the site of the concentration camp in 1947.

Awaiting execution at Nuremberg in 1947, Rudolf Höss returned to Catholicism, regretting his unquestioning pursuit of Nazi ideology and crimes against humanity. But little was said about the ...

NARRATOR: Rudolf Hoss, the man who had been in charge ... DAN SNOW: Four days before his execution, Hoss acknowledged his crimes, saying that he had sinned gravely against humanity and caused ...