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Rudolf Höss

Rudolf Höss

Rudolf Höss (also Höß, Hoeß or Hoess) was a Nazi German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in World War II. He tested and carried into effect various methods to accelerate Hitler's plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe, known as the Final Solution.

Born1901-11-25, Baden-Baden, Germany
Died1947-04-16, Oświęcim (Auschwitz), Poland
Linkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Höss