The first commandant of Auschwitz, SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss, who was tried and sentenced to death after the war by the Polish Supreme National Tribunal, was hanged here …

Nov 21, 2025 · 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 …

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 …

Apr 16, 2025 · Rudolf Höss, the former commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp and one of the principal architects of the Holocaust, was executed by hanging. Rudolf Höss (often spelled …

Rudolf Höss was replaced as Commandant of Auschwitz by Arthur Liebehenschel on 11 November 1943 and Höss was made head of the No 1 branch of Amstgruppe D of the WVHA, …

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 …

Nov 23, 2014 · Rudolf Hoess (Rudolf Höss) was the architect and commandant of the largest killing center ever created, the death camp Auschwitz, whose name has come to symbolize …

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was the Nazi commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp. Höss (born November 25, 1900; died April 16, 1947) was born in Baden-Baden, a town in …

His name is not as universally known as the likes of Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels, but Rudolf Höss was one of the central figures of the Holocaust. His appetite for mass murder helped …

Jul 8, 2023 · Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss expanded the camp's operations and pioneered the use of Zyklon B gas chambers, making him responsible for more than 1 million …