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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.
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (* 25. November 1901 [1] in Baden-Baden; † 16. April 1947 in Auschwitz) war ein deutscher Nationalsozialist, SS-Obersturmbannführer und von Mai 1940 bis November 1943 Kommandant des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz.
4 Jan 2024 · The Zone of Interest is a new film by Jonathan Glazer that imagines the everyday life of Rudolf Höss and his family, who lived near the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. The film explores the question of human nature and complicity in the Holocaust, without showing the atrocities directly.
24 Mei 2024 · Rudolf Franz Höss (born November 25, 1900, Baden-Baden, Germany—died April 16, 1947, Auschwitz [Oświęcim], Poland) was a German soldier and Nazi partisan 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. After ...
Rudolf Höss was the commander of Auschwitz, where he oversaw the murder of nearly one million Jews and others. He was hanged in 1947 after being tried in Poland and testifying in the Nuremberg Trials.
Rudolf Höss was the commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and a deputy inspector of concentration camps in the SS. He made numerous false and contradictory statements about the extermination of Jews and other victims in his postwar testimonies.
17 Feb 2011 · Learn about the life and career of Rudolf Höss, the man who built and ran the Auschwitz death camp, where over a million people were murdered. Explore his background, beliefs, role and legacy in the Nazi regime.
