Dan Snow & History Hit were given unique access to the house formerly home to the Commandant of the camp, Rudolf Höss.
Inside Dan uncovers chilling evidence of the horrors that unfolded 80 years ago and learns what life was like for the family whilst living there.
Special thanks to the Counter Extremism Project and the Auschwitz-Birkinau State Museum.
Additional thanks to Thomas Harding and Dr Schindler for speaking with us.
00:00 INTRO
00:51 THE CAMP
01:46 ENTERING THE HOUSE
06:27 THE BASEMENT
10:20 THE GARDEN
11:07 ABOUT HOSS AND HIS FAMILY WITH HISTORIAN THOMAS HARDING
12:55 WHO CAUGHT HOSS?
15:03 HOSS’S DAUGHTER
17:10 WHAT DID THE HOSS FAMILY KNOW?
20:00 THE HOUSE AFTER WW2
21:00 NEW DISCOVERIES
You can discover more about the history of Hoss and what happened here 80 years ago on Dan Snow’s History Hit podcast: https://rb.gy/p0mr75
Thomas’ book about his great uncles experiences of hunting down and capturing Hoss, Hanns and Rudolf is available to purchase from Penguin now: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/417187/hanns-and-rudolf-by-thomas-harding/9780099559054
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I have always wanted to go to Auschwitz but never got there,I know if or when I do got I will find it extremely upsetting but feel that this is something that should never ever be forgotten in our history.
Never forget. Rip everyone who died at the hands of evil! Oxo
wasnt millions it was hundreds of thousands…
It’s hard to imagine that there are people who walk or drive by that house, that camp, every single day. How did they have the foresight to not rip every single piece of brick and mortar down to the foundations? The anger in the years following the war must have been immense. I’m blown away that it all still stands. Thank God it does. I hope the world never forgets.
GERMAN concentration/extermination camp built in invaded and occupied Poland!
There is no such nation as Nazi.
when are you going to Gaza and documment the palestinian holocaust done by zionist israelis IDF??!
Jews get served up but they have done a job on Palestinians
Unfathomable.
To be taken through the space where Höß and his family lived, so close to that camp…
He was tried and hanged within the camp. The gallows upon which he was hanged are preserved. All of those camps and murders grimly attest to the absence of a God.
What about Gaza?