What it was like to grow up next to Auschwitz: ‘You try somehow to pretend it didn’t happen’
A new documentary, The Commandant’s Shadow, films the meeting of Rudolf Höss’s son and one of the camp’s survivors. Is forgiveness possible?
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A new documentary, The Commandant’s Shadow, films the meeting of Rudolf Höss’s son and one of the camp’s survivors. Is forgiveness possible?
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