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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Rudolf_HössRudolf Höss - Wikipedia

    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.

  2. May 24, 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. Feb 17, 2011 · Rudolf Höss - Commandant of Auschwitz. Auschwitz is a place of unparalleled horror and the site of the largest mass murder in history. Laurence Rees looks inside the mind of the man who built...

  6. Nov 12, 2023 · Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss had joined the Nazi Party in the early 1920s and later became an SS officer, working at a concentration camp at Dachau, before transferring to Auschwitz, which he ran...

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  8. 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.