[9] 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 …

Nov 21, 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 …

On April 16, 1947, Rudolf Höss, the first commandant and founder of the Auschwitz camp, was executed. Initially, the execution was to take place on April 14, but it was postponed because it was …

The commandant and commander of Auschwitz who oversaw much of the mass-murder was Rudolf Höss, who would transform the camp into a huge killing centre, using gas chambers and other ways.

Nov 23, 2014 · Hoess was sentenced to death by hanging on 2 April 1947. The sentence was carried out on 16 April immediately adjacent to the crematorium of the former Auschwitz I concentration camp.

On April 16, 1947, he was hanged on a specially constructed gallows in Auschwitz, the site of his crimes. Stanislaw Hantz, a guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, recalls Höss’s execution.

Apr 25, 2007 · An article in the monthly Focus Historia is devoted to the execution of camp commandant Rudolf Hoess at the Auschwitz site in April 1947, and the photographs taken at the time.

Aug 10, 2025 · On April 2, 1947, the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland found Rudolf Höss guilty of the charges. The tribunal sentenced him to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out on April …

Oct 11, 2025 · Discovering his grandfather Rudolph Höss was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp turned Kai Höss into an "ambassador for truth": He travels the world, meeting …

Over 1.1 million people died under his command—gassed, burned, starved, and worked to death in the camp he built and refined for industrial-scale killing. This is the documented account of the man...