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Birth Name: Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß
Born: 25 November 1900 Died: 16 April 1947
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Germany
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Hedwig Hensel
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Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (25 November 1900 – 16 April 1947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943 was the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered. Joining the Nazi Party in 1922, Höss joined the SS in 1934 and became a camp commander in May 1940. He was hanged in 1947 following his trial at Warsaw.
Höss wrote his autobiography while awaiting execution; it was published in 1958 as Kommandant in Auschwitz; autobiographische Aufzeichnungen and later as Death Dealer: the Memoirs of the SS Kom
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