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1. More - Brigitte Hoess, daughter of Rudolf Hoess,

The Seattle Times, 'A secret life as Nazi leader’s daughter,' Updated Sept. 14, 2013.

Brigitte Höss lives quietly on a leafy side street in Northern Virginia. She is retired, having worked in a Washington fashion salon for more than 30 years. She recently was diagnosed with cancer and spends much of her days dealing with the medical consequences.

She also has a secret not even her grandchildren know: Her father was Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz. It was Rudolf Höss who designed and built Auschwitz, turning an old army barracks in Poland into a killing machine capable of murdering 2,000 people an hour. By the end of the war, 1.1 million Jews had been killed in the camp, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of thousands of Polish and Russian political prisoners. As such, Brigitte Höss’ father was one of the biggest mass murderers in history...
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-secret-life-as-nazi-leaderrsquos-daughter/
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Brigitte Hoess worked in sales at Saks Jandel, a fashionable women's dress shop in Chevy Chase, Md. that was patronized by noted women in the Washington, DC area. Hoess informed the managers, a Jewish couple, of her history. They said that was in the past. Brigitte was employed at the salon for 30 years. (Saks Jandel is not affiliated with the well- known Saks Fifth Avenue store).