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The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there ( 2. 5 million gassed, and 500, 000 from disease and starvation ).
Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.
There he met Rudolf Höss, who was later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and Walther Darré, whose book, The Peasantry as the Life Source of the Nordic Race, caught Hitler's attention, leading to his later appointment as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture.
* 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, said that the use of Zyklon-B came about on the initiative of one of his subordinates, Captain Karl Fritzsch, who used the substance to kill some Russian POWs in late August 1941.
According to Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, bunker 1 held 800 people, and bunker 2 held 1, 200.
* When Nazi Germany lost the war Rudolf Höss hid on the island, but was captured there and brought to trial in Nürnberg.
She describes her violently anti-Semitic father, a law professor in Krakow ; her unwillingness to help him spread his ideas ; her arrest by the Nazis for smuggling food to her mother, who was on her deathbed ; and particularly, her brief stint as a stenographer-typist in the home of Rudolf Höss, the commander of Auschwitz, where she was interned.
* Rudolf Höss ( 1934 – 1938 )
These assertions were based on his own interpretation of archival records and his skepticism about the assertions and testimony of various historical figures, including Nazi officials such as Rudolf Höss.
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss ( also spelled Höß, sometimes spelled in English as Hoess ; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947 ) was an ( Lieutenant Colonel ), and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943 the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered.
Rudolf Höss at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland
Rudolf Höss appeared at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg on 15 April 1946 where he gave detailed testimony of his crimes.
Affidavits that Rudolf Höss had made whilst held prisoner in Nuremberg were also used at Pohl & IG Farben trials.
Appointment order of Rudolf Höss as Commander of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
* SS Personnel Service Record of Rudolf Höss, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, US.
* Jewish Virtual Library: Rudolf Höss
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The experiment was repeated on more Russian POWs, with Höss watching, in September of the same year.
Those inside died within 20 minutes ; the speed of death depended on how close the inmate was standing to a gas vent, according to Höss, who estimated that about one third of the victims died immediately.
She specifically relates her attempts to seduce Höss in an effort to persuade him that her blond, blue-eyed, German-speaking son should be allowed to leave the camp and enter the Lebensborn program, in which he would be raised as a German child.
Höss joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and the SS in 1934.
Höss was born in Baden-Baden into a strict Catholic family, but later officialy renounced his membership in the Catholic Church.
He lived with his mother Lina née Speck and father Franz Xaver Höss.
Höss was the eldest of three children and the only son.
Höss grew up with an almost fanatical belief in the central role of " duty " in a moral life.
Höss began turning against religion in his early teens, after an episode in which, he said, his own priest broke the Seal of the Confessional by telling his father about an event at school that Höss had described during confession.
Soon afterward, Höss's father died and Höss began moving toward a military life.
When World War I broke out, Höss served briefly in a military hospital and then, at the age of 14, was admitted to his father's and grandfather's old regiment, the German Army's 21st Regiment of Dragoons.
Höss also briefly served as commander of a cavalry unit.
After Germany's surrender, Höss completed his secondary education, following which joined nationalist paramilitary groups that were forming in the post-war chaos, first the East Prussian Volunteer Corps and then the in the Baltic area, Silesia, and the Ruhr.
Höss participated in guerrilla attacks against Polish people during the Silesian Uprisings, and against French occupation forces during the Occupation of the Ruhr.
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* Muhr, Rudolf / Schrodt, Richard: Österreichisches Deutsch und andere nationale Varietäten plurizentrischer Sprachen in Europa.
* Muhr, Rudolf / Schrodt, Richard / Wiesinger, Peter ( eds.
This work resumed however with the development of the so-called " Second Quest ", among whose notable exponents was Rudolf Bultmann's student Ernst Käsemann.
* 1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
* 1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria ( d. 1889 )
* Heinrich Joseph Vogels, Vinzenz Bulhart, and Rudolf Hanslik.
Rudolf Steiner wrote of the cultural evolution of Atlantis in much the same vein.
* Heaven Earth ( 2008 ), directed by Rudolf Amaral and Harald Scherz.
It was subsequently acquired by the Emperor Rudolf II and taken to Prague.
Agnes of Kyburg, who had no male relations, sold the family's lands to King Rudolf I von Habsburg.
** 10 March 1803 – 26 April 1803 Johann Rudolf Dolder ( b. 1753 – d. 1807 )
Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development.
Rudolf Steiner.
The Representative of Humanity, detail of a sculpture in wood by Rudolf Steiner and Edith Maryon.
Biodynamic agriculture, the first intentional form of organic farming, began in the 1920s when Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures since published as Agriculture.
Rudolf Steiner wrote and lectured on Judaism and Jewish issues for much of his life.
Though Rudolf Steiner studied natural science at the Vienna Technical University at the undergraduate level, his doctorate was in epistemology and very little of his work is directly concerned with the empirical sciences.
Born in Orbe, today in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia.
On her way to Burgundy to support her nephew Rudolf III against a rebellion, she died at Selz Abbey on December 16, 999, days short of the millennium she thought would bring the Second Coming of Christ.
* 1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess was kept under escort at Maindiff Court Military Hospital during the Second World War, after his flight to Britain.
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