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 · The Zone of Interest envisions the everyday lives of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family, rarely venturing beyond their villa’s borders to acknowledge the atrocities unfolding ...

Feb 17, 2011 · Höss joined the Nazi party in November 1922, shortly after it was founded. Heinrich Himmler, an ardent Nazi talent spotter who knew Höss from the early days, invited him to become an active...

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) [1] [2] was a high-ranking member of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) during World War II. He was in charge of Auschwitz concentration camp for about four years from 4 May 1940-18 January 1945.

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was the Nazi commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp. Höss was born on November 25, 1900, in Baden-Baden, a town in southwest Germany. In high school, he trained for the priesthood yet his father’s death and the outset of World War I changed those career plans.

Rudolf Hoss at the opening of the SS Lazarett in Auschwitz 1944 Rudolf Höss was born in Baden-Baden on 25 November 1900, the son of pious Catholic parents. His father, a shopkeeper who wanted his son to become a Roman Catholic priest, was a …

Rudolf Höss (25 Nov. 1901 – 16 April 1947), SS Obersturmbannführer, served at the Dachau Concentration Camp from December 1934 until 1938, then at the Sachsenhausen Camp until May 1940, when he was charged with setting up the new Auschwitz Camp, where he became commandant in October of that year.

His name is not as universally known as the likes of Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels, but Rudolf Höss was one of the central figures of the Holocaust. His appetite for mass murder helped make Auschwitz the most notorious of all the death camps.