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2 days ago · 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 .
Jun 27, 2024 · The Last Execution in Block 11. On the morning of April 16, 1947, military guards stood around Auschwitz as Höss arrived. He was taken to the building that had once been the commandant’s office. There, he asked for and was given a cup of coffee.
Jul 12, 2024 · After the dark portrayal of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family in Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Daniela Völker tells Anne Joseph how her new film presents the parallel...
Jul 17, 2024 · Daniela Völker’s feature-length documentary The Commandant’s Shadow follows the journey of Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz and history’s most...
Jul 7, 2024 · Rudolf Höss and Hedwig famously lived in a villa on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau as he oversaw the camp and fine-tuned the horrific methods used by the Nazis to kill more than a million...
Jul 12, 2024 · On 16 April 1947, Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, was hanged at the very site where he oversaw the extermination of over a million people. A few days before his execution, he wrote letters to his wife and children.
5 days ago · During most of the period from 1940 to 1945, the commandant of the central Auschwitz camps was SS-Hauptsturmführer (Capt.) and ultimately SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieut. Col.) Rudolf Franz Höss (Hoess).
