With upcoming elections in a Europe beset by rising neo-Nazi frenzy, a new campaign by Swedish Social Democrats against the resurgence has a high-profile leader: Rainer Hoess, 48, grandson of Rudolf Hoess, the infamous commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp who presided over the murder of over a million Jews and others before being captured and hanged near the crematorium he was so proud of. Hoess, who wears a Star of David around his neck, has spent years researching the Nazi movement, talking to survivors, and speaking to German schoolchildren about the dangers of right-wing extremism. He also appeared in the critically acclaimed documentary "Hitler's Children." The Swedish campaign, dubbed "Never Forget. To Vote," stresses that "Nazi influences are growing in Europe for the same reasons they did back then. The social safety nets have been torn, and people are left behind...Hopelessness is what comes first. Then the hatred."

Hoess on his murderous grandfather: "Generation after generation, we bear the same cross he put on our shoulders."