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Rudolf Höss
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German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz (1901–1947)
Rudolf Höss was a high-ranking Nazi officer who served as commandant of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp during World War II. He is significant as a key figure in the Holocaust whose testimony and records have been crucial to historical understanding of the genocide and Nazi crimes against humanity.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 25 November 1901
- Died
- 16 April 1947
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Αυτοβιογραφία Η ζωή και η δράση του στο Νταχάου, στο Ζαξενχάουζεν και στο Άουσβιτς
- Yo, comandante de Auschwitz
- Commandant of Auschwitz
- KL Auschwitz seen by the SS
- Kommandant in Auschwitz
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 6
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,321x
- [14] Analysis of total phenols and other oxidation substrates and antioxidants by means of folin-ciocalteu reagent
· 1999 · cited 14,049x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,118x
- World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
· 2006 · cited 9,901x
- The use of partial least squares path modeling in international marketing
· 2009 · cited 7,141x
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Quotes
- “Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.”
- “There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.”
- “We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, when it was woven into special fittings for gaskets.”
- “You become hard when you carry out such orders.”
- “One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.”
- “Burning 2000 people took about 24 hours in the five stoves. Usually we could manage to cremate only about 1700 to 1800. We were thus always behind in our cremating because as you can see it was much easier to exterminate by gas than to cremate, which took so much more time and labor.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German: [hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) 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 lived under a false name until discovered by the British, who then turned him over to Polish authorities. Höss 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 over a million people were killed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rudolf Höss” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.