Many prisoners died as a result of being beaten or tortured. The first commandant of Auschwitz, SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss, who was tried and sentenced to death after the war by …

Feb 20, 2024 · In 1946, Rudolf was handed over to Poland, only for him to get tried by the Supreme National Tribunal. He was sentenced to death by hanging on April 2, 1947. The next …

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 …

Jan 17, 2025 · Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz; 90 percent of them were Jews. Also among the dead were some 19,000 Roma who were held at the camp until the …

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 …

Apr 25, 2007 · The court announced its verdict, sentencing Hoess to death by hanging, on April 2, 1947. The day after the verdict, former prisoners petitioned the court for the execution to take …

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was the Nazi commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp. Höss was born on November 25, 1900, in Baden-Baden, a town in southwest Germany. In …

Feb 17, 2011 · He is the greatest mass murderer the world has ever seen, and yet there is no record of him ever personally hitting - let alone killing - anyone at the camp.

Rudolf Hoess was history's greatest mass murderer, the architect and SS Kommandant of the largest killing center ever created, the death camp Auschwitz, whose name has come to …

On April 16, 1947, Rudolf Höss, the first commandant and founder of the Auschwitz camp, was executed. Initially, the execution was to take place on April 14, but it was postponed because it …