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April 16, 1947 Oświęcim. On 16 April 1947, Rudolf Höss was hanged in the courtyard next to the former crematorium of Auschwitz. Höss was the Commander of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. In this role, he was responsible for the deaths of nearly one million Jews and other prisoners in the camp.
Feb 17, 2011 · Rudolf Höss - Commandant of Auschwitz. By Laurence Rees. Last updated 2011-02-17. Auschwitz is a place of unparalleled horror and the site of the largest mass murder in history. Laurence Rees...
Rudolf Höss (25 Nov. 1901 – 16 April 1947), SS Obersturmbannführer, served at the Dachau Concentration Camp from December 1934 until 1938, then at the Sachsenhausen Camp until May 1940, when he was charged with setting up the new Auschwitz Camp, where he became commandant in October of that year.
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he was convicted in Poland and executed for war crimes committed on the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp and for his role in the Holocaust.
Feb 2, 2024 · Rudolf Höss was the commandant of Auschwitz between May 1940 and November 1943, and returned to the camp between May 1944 and January 1945 to supervise the extermination of Hungarian Jews. Read more | The liberation of Auschwitz, 75 years on: what happened and how do we remember the Holocaust?
The testimony of Rudolf Hoess, commander of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination complex. He offered this statement at the Nuremberg war crimes hearings in 1946: I, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, being first duly sworn, depose and say as follows:
Aug 19, 2020 · Rudolf Hoess or Höss (1901-1947) was a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who became the first and longest-serving commandant of the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration facility. It was under Hoess’ command that Auschwitz became a death camp tasked with mass extermination of Jews and other minorities.
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