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Nazi commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (1901–1947)

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From a sworn affidavit by Rudolf Hoess, member of the SS and Auschwitz camp commandant from May 1, , until December 1, , who was tried and sentenced.

Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that “won't let you go until you've finished.

Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that “won't let you go until you've finished reading the last page” (The.

On the camp site now one can only find a commemorative plaque which reads: "Sobibor.

At the end of the Permanent Exhibition at the United.

This article is about the commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. For the surname, see Höss (surname). For the Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler, see Rudolf Hess.

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German:[hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947)^[5] 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.

Höss was the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, and again from 8 May 1944 to 18 January 1945).

He tested and implemented means to accelerate Hitler's order to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-o