Höss was the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, and again from 8 May 1944 to 18 January 1945). He tested and implemented means to accelerate Hitler's order to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe, known as the Final Solution.

2025年1月17日 · Rudolf Franz Höss (born November 25, 1900, Baden-Baden, Germany—died April 16, 1947, Auschwitz [Oświęcim], Poland) was a German soldier and Nazi partisan 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.

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß war ein deutscher Nationalsozialist, SS-Obersturmbannführer und von Mai 1940 bis November 1943 Kommandant des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz. Er war verantwortlich für den Tod von weit mehr als einer Million Menschen und wurde als Kriegsverbrecher 1947 zum Tode durch den Strang verurteilt und am Ort des ehemaligen ...

Il est commandant des camps de concentration et d' extermination d' Auschwitz-Birkenau, le plus vaste complexe du système concentrationnaire nazi, du 1er mai 1940 au 1er décembre 1943, puis de nouveau entre le 8 mai et août 1944, période durant laquelle la déportation massive des Juifs hongrois, au nombre de plus de 320 000 hommes, femmes et enf...

2025年1月17日 · Inside the family home, Rudolf Höss – the longest serving SS commandant of Auschwitz – dreamt up the most efficient way to kill the millions of Jews, Roma, homosexuals and political prisoners...

2023年7月8日 · 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.

2011年2月17日 · During his first year at the camp, Höss oversaw the expansion of Auschwitz from a poorly-resourced but brutal concentration camp for Poles into a source of slave labour for the construction of...

2024年1月4日 · 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...

1 天前 · Every day Rudolf Höss oversaw the killing of thousands of people at the death camp and then went home and acted like a doting father to his family. Höss was brought in by top Nazis to pioneer ...

2007年4月25日 · We are publishing mostly unknown photographs from the execution of Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. They were taken by the late Stanisław Dąbrowiecki, a press photographer, on April 16, 1947. They were kept secret for several decades in communist Poland.