http://JooTube.TV Rainer Hoess, grandson of Auschwitz commendant Rudolph Hoess, addresses Ben Lesser's Zachor "Remembrance" group in Los Angeles, Aug 2015.

"Auschwitz commander's grandson: Why my family call me a traitor" from interview with Rainer by journalist Konstantinos Lianos in The Telegraph: Nov 20,'14

Mr Hoess's grandfather was Rudolf Hoess – the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and the man who oversaw the murder of an estimated 1.5 million people.

Mr Hoess, 49, is the only member of his family to publicly denounce his grandfather, who was hanged at the end of the Nuremburg trial, in 1945.

As a child, he had no idea of the history of the man who died 20 years before he was born.

"There was a dictatorship in the house, and we weren't allowed to disagree," he said. "I had to admire my grandfather like a hero."

Hoess joined the Nazi party in 1922 and 12 years later became part of the SS. His extensive experience at Dachau and Sachsenhausen as well as his long-time friendship with SS commander Heinrich Himmler led to his appointment as commandant at Auschwitz in 1940.

He was the designer and administrator of the gas chambers and the one that introduced the Zyklon B gas that was used to execute children, the elderly and everyone else that was unfit to work."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11241714/Auschwitz-commanders-grandson-Why-my-family-call-me-a-traitor.html