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.

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

* Höss, Rudolf.

* 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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Rudolf Diels, first Commander of the Gestapo ; 1933 – 1934

Further, on 9 June 1934, the SD was declared the official Nazi intelligence service by Rudolf Hess.

Rudolf Maister ( Vojanov ) ( 29 March 1874 – 26 July 1934 ) was a Slovene military officer, poet and political activist.

While on sabbatical from the University of Chicago in 1934, Morris traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Moritz Schlick.

* Rudolf Carnap, Logische Syntax der Sprache, 1934 ( The Logical Syntax of Language, New York: Humanities, 1937 )

* Rudolf Carnap, Die Aufgabe der Wissenschaftlogik, 1934

A world traveller in her own right, Joyce accompanied Vivian on his expedition to Lake Rudolf ( now Lake Turkana ) in 1934.

* Rudolf Carnap, 1934.

Rudolf Schuster ( born 4 January 1934 in Košice, Czechoslovakia ) is a former President of Slovakia ( 1999 – 2004 ).

This procedure is an example of the point-splitting regularization procedure introduced by Paul Dirac and Rudolf Peierls to define apparently divergent quantities in quantum field theory in 1934.

In 1934 he married Audrey Muriel Rudolf.

* Rudolf Nadolny ( 1933 – 1934 )

In January 1934 Telefunken met with German radar researchers, notably Dr. Rudolf Kühnhold of the Communications Research Institute of the German Navy and Dr. Hans Hollmann, an expert in microwaves, who informed them of their work on an early warning radar.

In January 1934, he finished second to Rudolf Spielmann, in Warsaw.

Ståhlberg came to fame when he won matches against star players Rudolf Spielmann and Aron Nimzowitsch in 1933 and 1934 respectively, and came third ( after Alekhine ) in Dresden 1936, and second ( after Fine ) in Stockholm 1937.

Petrovs won a match with Movsas Feigins (+ 4 – 1 = 3 ) in 1931, won a match against Vladas Mikėnas (+ 2 – 0 = 1 ) in 1932, and narrowly lost a match to Rudolf Spielmann (+ 1 – 2 = 5 ) in 1934.

For the dialogues, see also the editions of Richard Rudolf Walzer, Aristotelis Dialogorum fragmenta, in usum scholarum ( Florence 1934 ), and Renato Laurenti, Aristotele: I frammenti dei dialoghi ( 2 vols.

Rudi Carrell ( 19 December 1934, Alkmaar, Netherlands — 7 July 2006, Bremen, Germany ), born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar, was a Dutch entertainer.

* Heinz im Mond, 1934, with Annemarie Sörensen, Rudolf Platte, Oskar Sima, Inge Konradi

Rudolf Drößler ( born 18 May 1934 in Zeitz ) is a German specialized book author and science-journalist.