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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.
Jan 4, 2024 · The Zone of Interest is a new film by Jonathan Glazer that imagines the everyday life of Rudolf Höss and his family, who lived near the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. The film explores the question of human nature and complicity in the Holocaust, without showing the atrocities directly.
- Meilan Solly
Feb 20, 2024 · Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, was hanged in the camp in 1947. Hedwig Höss, his wife, died in the US in 1990 after visiting her daughter.
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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Jul 8, 2023 · Learn how Rudolf Höss became the commandant of Auschwitz, the most notorious Nazi death camp, and pioneered the use of Zyklon B gas chambers to kill over 1 million people. Discover his life story, his role in the Holocaust, and his trial and execution.
- Kaleena Fraga
Rudolf Höss was the commander of Auschwitz, where he oversaw the murder of nearly one million Jews and others. He was hanged in 1947 after being tried in Poland and testifying in the Nuremberg Trials.
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Rudolf Höss was the commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and a deputy inspector of concentration camps in the SS. He made numerous false and contradictory statements about the extermination of Jews and other victims in his postwar testimonies.
