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.

Jan 17, 2025 · 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.

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 Auschwitz into the Nazis' largest death camp.

Jan 4, 2024 · These peaceful domestic scenes masked a dark reality: Rudolf was the Nazi officer in charge of Auschwitz, the concentration and extermination camp where the Nazis killed an estimated 1.1...

Jan 17, 2025 · 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...

Feb 17, 2011 · Höss's long career in concentration camps prepared him step-by-step for the moment when the gassings began at Auschwitz, thereby allowing him carry on, calmly and faithfully, organising...

The confession of Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau (catalogue reference WO 309/217) Statement made voluntarily at Gaol by Rudolf HOESS former commandant of...

From 1946 to 1949, about 1 thousand people suspected of committing war crimes at Auschwitz were extradited to Poland, mostly from the American occupation zone in Germany. Charges were brought against 673 people, including 21 women. The Warsaw trial of commandant Rudolf Höss.

Apr 25, 2007 · 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.

Jan 27, 2025 · The former home of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, located just steps away from the infamous Nazi concentration camp, is undergoing a profound transformation. Acquired by the US-based Counter Extremism Project (CEP), the villa at 88 Legionow Street will soon reopen as the Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization.