Hans rudolf hoess autobiography

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In May 1945, in the after­math of the Sec­ond World War, the first British War Crimes Inves­ti­ga­tion Team is assem­bled to hunt down the senior Nazi offi­cials respon­si­ble for plan­ning and imple­ment­ing some of the worst atroc­i­ties the world has ever seen. One of the lead inves­ti­ga­tors was Lieu­tenant Hanns Alexan­der, a Ger­man Jew who had fled Berlin in the 1930s and found refuge in Eng­land. He was now serv­ing in the British army. Rudolf Hoss was one of his most impor­tant and elu­sive tar­gets: as Kom­man­dant of Aus­chwitz, Hӧss over­saw the trans­for­ma­tion of Auschwitz-Birke­nau from an old army bar­racks in Poland to a killing fac­to­ry of unprece­dent­ed effi­cien­cy and bru­tal­i­ty. By the end of the war, 1.1 mil­lion Jews had been killed in the camp, along with 20,000 Gyp­sies and tens of thou­sands of Pol­ish and Russ­ian pris­on­ers. Now Hoss is on the run and Alexan­der and his team are in hot pursuit.

Thomas Hard­ing has writ­ten a riv­et­ing account of the inter­sec­tion of two lives: his great-uncle, Hanns Alexan­der, and Kom­mandant Hoss. Hard­ing only learned about Alexander’s exploits in 2006 when he

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Rudolf Höss

Nazi commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (1901–1947)

"Höss" and "Hoess" redirect here. This article is about the commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. For the surname, see Höss (surname). For the Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler, see Rudolf Hess.

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German:[hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947)^[5] was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. 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.

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. On the initiative of one of his subordinates, Karl Fritzsch, Höss introduced the pesticide Zyklon B to be used in gas chambers, where more than a million people were killed.^[9]

Höss was hanged in 1947 following a trial before the Polish Supreme