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20. Feb. 2024 · Rudolf Höss Was Hanged at Auschwitz. In 1944, Rudolf returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp to oversee the mass execution of around 434,000 Hungarian Jews, who were transported to the place in 56 days. At the time, the crematoriums at the camp were only able to dispose of around 132,000 bodies a month.
Höss was hanged in 1947 following a trial before the Polish Supreme National Tribunal. During his imprisonment, at the request of the Polish authorities, Höss wrote his memoirs, released in English under the title Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess.
On 16 April 1947, Rudolf Höss was hanged in the courtyard next to the former crematorium of Auschwitz. Höss was the Commander of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. In this role, he was responsible for the deaths of nearly one million Jews and other prisoners in the camp.
7. Sept. 2008 · The site of the execution of Rudolf Höss quite close to his former office and the gas chamber in crematorium one at Auschwitz where he was commandant from 19...
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4. Jan. 2024 · On April 16, 1947, Rudolf was hanged at Auschwitz, the site of his crimes, in front of a crowd that included former camp inmates.
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23. Nov. 2014 · To the end, Hoess contended that, at the most, a million and a half people had died at Auschwitz, not 5 or 6 million. At the end of the trial, he requested the court’s permission to send his wedding ring to his wife. Hoess was sentenced to death by hanging on 2 April 1947.
At 10 am on Wednesday April 16, 1947, the former commandant of Auschwitz extermination camp, SS Oberstürm bannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolph Hoess, briskly walked under armed escort toward the small wooden gallows specifically built for him inside the camp grounds.
