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Saturday, June 6, 2015

'My Beautiful Auschwitz Childhood'

'My Beautiful Auschwitz Childhood': Daughter of Camp Commandant Hoess Describes Her Hidden Life

The daughter of Nazi death camp commander Rudolf Hoess has broken decades of silence and spoken of having to accept and conceal that her father was one of history's most prolific mass murderers. Ingebirgitt Hannah Hoess has lived a glamorous life, working as a catwalk model in Spain and later marrying an American and working in fashion in Washington, even mixing with Bill Clinton and Al Gore. But, living under an assumed name, she was forced to closely guard the secret of her family name ... In a dramatic interview with Germany's Stern magazine, she explained for the first time how she suffered blinding headaches for year whenever she tried to think of Auschwitz, similar to those suffered by her father.

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