Military · Politics · 1900–1947

Rudolf Höss

Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II

Did you know?After the war, he hid under a false identity as a farm labourer before being captured by British intelligence.

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German:; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and a war criminal.

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