Auschwitz commandant's model daughter who kept family secret

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: Auschwitz commandant's model daughter who kept her family secret hidden for 40 years while working for a Jewish boss in Washington

Brigitte Höss, circled, has avoided talking about her shameful family secret for almost her entire life and maintains that her father 'was the nicest man in the world.' She was one of five children raised by Rudolf Höss and his wife next to the notorious Nazi death camp Auschwitz, top right. Her father, bottom right, was hanged after pleading guilty to killing more than one million Jews. She escaped Germany and worked briefly as a model for the Balenciaga fashion house in Madrid before moving to Washington DC. There she worked for a Jewish woman who ran a fashion boutique. Now 80, she is dying of cancer and has rarely spoken of her secret past