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Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German:; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Apr 12, 2024 · Rudolf Hoss, German soldier and Nazi official who served as commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex (1940–45) during a period when as many as 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 inmates perished there.
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Jan 4, 2024 · The Zone of Interest envisions the everyday lives of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family, rarely venturing beyond their villa’s borders to acknowledge the atrocities unfolding...
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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 · What sort of man was the commandant of Auschwitz, the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world? A place crammed with suffering, where acts of nightmarish atrocity were...
Jul 8, 2023 · As commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, Rudolf Höss oversaw the deaths of about 1 million people between 1940 and 1945. He turned Auschwitz into the Nazis' largest death camp.
The first commandant of Auschwitz was SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss (May 1940-November 1943). His successors were SS-Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel (November 1943-May 1944) and SS-Sturmbannführer Richard Baer (May 1944-January 1945).
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