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18. Apr. 2017 · The Wedding Ring That Got Auschwitz’s Commander Hanged. Rudolf Höss was executed exactly 70 years ago. Little did he know his wedding ring would do him in thanks to the ingenuity of Berlin-born Jew Hanns Alexander. Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss being handed over to the Polish authorities in 1946. Credit: Auschwitz Museum.
Rudolf Höß als Angeklagter beim Gerichtsprozess in Polen (1947) Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (* 25. November 1901 [1] in Baden-Baden; † 16. April 1947 in Auschwitz) war ein deutscher Nationalsozialist, SS-Obersturmbannführer und von Mai 1940 bis November 1943 Kommandant des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz.
Kramer was convicted of war crimes for atrocities he committed in the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps and sentenced to death. He was hanged at Hamelin Prison in Allied-occupied Germany on December 13, 1945, at the age of 39. That same day, the British hanged 10 another guards, also for atrocities they committed in Auschwitz and/or Bergen ...
16. Apr. 2019 · April 16, 1947, was the hanging-date of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss. Not to be confused with the Rudolf Hess, the Nazi party defector held by the British in lonely confinement in Spandau until 1987, Höss was true to the swastika from beginning to end. A World War I survivor, our guy joined the right-wing Freikorps paramilitaries and ...
26. Jan. 2023 · One in six Jews killed in the Holocaust died at Auschwitz. After being condemned to death by the Supreme National Tribunal in Poland, Höss was hanged on April 16, 1947. Justice had been carried ...
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss. Execution of Rudolf Höss. Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss served as the first commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp from May 4, 1940 to November 1943, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered. Höss was born in Baden-Baden into a Catholic family on November 25, 1901.
17. Feb. 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 ...
