NRC: The villa of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss, known from the film 'The Zone of Interest', becomes an 'experience space'
"The villa was bought by the American NGO Counter Extremism Project (CEP), which works worldwide against all forms of extremism, hatred and racism. "We are definitely not going to turn it into a museum," says CEP director Hans-Jakob Schindler. The organization has coined the building House 88, which is to serve as an 'experience space'. The house number 88 of Höss' home refers to the eighth letter of the alphabet and is a code for Heil Hitler. The world-famous architect Daniel Libeskind, son of Holocaust survivors and architect of the Holocaust Namenmonument in Amsterdam, is going to completely renovate the villa. The CEP has also bought the adjacent building, which will house a think tank."

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