Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, a German SS officer during the Nazi era, has recently been in the news due to the film "The Zone of Interest," which portrays the domestic life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss. The film juxtaposes the everyday concerns of Höss's family with the atrocities of the concentration camp he oversaw. Höss, who served as the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, was convicted for war crimes after the defeat of Nazi Germany. He was responsible for the deaths of over a million people in the camp. Höss was executed in 1947 for his role in the Holocaust, leaving a dark legacy that continues to be explored in various forms of media and historical accounts.