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

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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While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

However, about half-way through the second season when Rudolf Nureyev appeared, his appearance gave the show so much positive publicity that other celebrities came to the producers instead of the other way around.

Some of the many soloists who have appeared with the orchestra include violinists Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Yehudi Menuhin, Midori, Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern and Efrem Zimbalist ; and pianists Vladimir Horowitz, Horacio Gutierrez, Vladimir de Pachmann, Peter Serkin, Rudolf Serkin, Ruth Slenzynska, Patricia Benkman, Ozan Marsh and André Watts.

Rudolf appeared to be genuinely in love, but his mother regarded her new daughter-in-law as a " clumsy oaf.

Schildraut's father Rudolf also appeared in the film.

" More articles and books on the security organs appeared, and Soviet spies became heroes in print — Rudolf Abel, Gordon Lonsdale, Harold ( Kim ) Philby, and Richard Sorge.

Schell's brother Paul Rudolf ( born 1940 ), now known as Paul von Schell, has appeared in some German-language productions, while another brother, Peter ( 1941 – 1968 ), died young.

In the election, former Chairman of the Czechoslovak Constitutional Court Ernest Valko and former Minister of Health Rudolf Zajac appeared on the OKS list.

Obecná škola is also notable because it includes one of the last roles for two prominent Czech actors Rudolf Hrušínský ( his last big screen film ) and Petr Čepek ( appeared in two more films before his death ).

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.

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.

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.

Rudolf Bauer ( athlete ) | Rudolf Bauer at the 1900 Olympics

At Augsburg, on August 10, 1893, Rudolf Diesel's prime model, a single iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time.

In 1955 the publication of Rudolf Flesch's Why Johnny Can ’ t Read leveled criticism of reading programs at the progressive emphasis on reading in context.

In 1877, Rudolf Virchow ( 1821 – 1902 ), once an inspiration to Haeckel at Würzburg, proclaimed that Haeckel ’ s embryo drawings represent mere hypotheses.

It was the last prewar Grand Prix at Monaco, for in 1938, the demand for ₤ 500 ( about US $ 2450 Rudolf Caracciola

While this theory, first propounded by Ernst von Dobschütz and Rudolf Bultmann, is not universally accepted, Amos Wilder writes that, " it is at least clear that there are considerable and sometimes continuous elements in the epistle whose style distinguishes them from that of the author both with respect to poetic structure and syntactic usage.

The premiere was held in Vienna on 15 June 1938, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Oswald Kabasta: the soloists were Rudolf Gerlach ( John ), Erika Rokyta, Enid Szantho, Anton Dermota, Josef von Manowarda and with Franz Schütz at the organ.

" Rudolf Simek theorizes that the figure of Hel is " probably a very late personification of the underworld Hel ," and says that " the first kennings using the goddess Hel are found at the end of the 10th and in the 11th centuries.

From 1606 he was at the University of Marburg, taught by Rudolf Goclenius, Gregorius Schönfeld and Raphaël Egli.

According to his brother Rudolf, at the age of six or seven Kurt suffered from rheumatic fever ; he completely recovered, but for the rest of his life he remained convinced that his heart had suffered permanent damage.

His interest in mathematics increased when in 1920 his older brother Rudolf ( born 1902 ) left for Vienna to go to medical school at the University of Vienna.

A 1929 pamphlet written by Neurath, Hahn, and Rudolf Carnap summarized the doctrines of the Vienna Circle at that time.

Maxwell once again used the experimental results of Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Rudolf Kohlrausch to show that this wave equation represented an electromagnetic wave that propagates at the speed of light, hence supporting the view that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation.

Memorable pre-war races at the circuit featured the talents of early Ringmeister ( Ringmasters ) such as Rudolf Caracciola, Tazio Nuvolari and Bernd Rosemeyer.

Rudolf Hess and others at Heinrich Himmler's " Building and Planning in the East " March 1941 Exhibition

Pacelli ( seated, center ) at the signing of the Reichskonkordat on 20 July 1933 in Rome with ( from left to right ): German prelate Ludwig Kaas, German Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, Secretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs Giuseppe Pizzardo, Alfredo Ottaviani, and Reich minister Rudolf Buttmann

In July 1276, he was one of the three cardinals whom Pope Adrian V sent to Viterbo with instructions to treat with the German King, Rudolf I of Habsburg, concerning his imperial coronation at Rome and his future relations towards Charles of Anjou, whom papal policy supported.

But general opposition showed itself to the papal interference ; a council at Würzburg ( 16 – 18 March 1287 ) protested energetically, and Rudolf I had to protect the legate from personal violence, so that both his plans and the Pope's failed.

Rudolf spent eight formative years, from age 11 to 19 ( 1563 – 1571 ), in Spain, at the court of his maternal uncle Phillip II.