{"id":34293,"date":"2024-03-04T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=262585"},"modified":"2024-03-04T12:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T11:11:34","slug":"the-man-who-ran-auschwitz-the-real-story-of-the-zone-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-man-who-ran-auschwitz-the-real-story-of-the-zone-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Professor Richard J Evans talks to Rob Attar about Rudolf H\u00f6ss, the notorious commandant of Auschwitz, whose story is the focus of the acclaimed new film The Zone of Interest <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 04 March 2024 at 07:21 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>The Oscar-nominated film <em>The Zone of Interest<\/em> is one of the most acclaimed and talked about films of 2024. Directed by Jonathan Glazer and loosely based on a novel of the same name by Martin Amis, <em>The Zone of Interest<\/em> focuses on the life of Rudolf H\u00f6ss and his family during the Second World War, when he was commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In today\u2019s episode, Professor Richard J Evans, one of the world\u2019s leading experts on Nazi Germany, speaks to Rob Attar about the real story of Rudolf H\u00f6ss. 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