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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. 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 ...
Feb 20, 2024 · Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, was hanged in the camp in 1947. Hedwig Höss, his wife, died in the US in 1990 after visiting her daughter.
Jan 4, 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.
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.
May 24, 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.
Aug 19, 2020 · Rudolf Hoess or Höss (1901-1947) was a Schutzstaffel 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.
