This seemingly ordinary house next door shows “just how close heaven can be to hell on earth”.The former home of the world’s biggest mass murderer, Rudolf Höss - whose day job was as Auschwitz commandant - has opened its doors to the public for the first time since World War II.
The Mirror was invited inside to mark the 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz where 1.1 million people, the vast majority Jews, were brutally killed.
We were warned visiting the Hoss house would make “your skin crawl”. It did. It is the ultimate house of horrors as within its walls “monster” Hoss could watch Jews in the camp as they were marched towards a harrowing death.
House 88 was where he lived when he expanded the camp and came up with the idea of using Zyklon B, the trade name of cyanide based pesticide, to kill more people faster.
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