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.

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

* 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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* 1900 – Rudolf Höß, German concentration camp commandant ( d. 1947 )

On October 7, 1942, Mandel was assigned to the Auschwitz II Birkenau camp in Poland where she succeeded Johanna Langefeld as SS-Lagerführerin, a female commandant under ( male ) SS-Kommandant Rudolf Höß.

It was placed above the gate to Auschwitz by the commandant Rudolf Höß.

On, Liebehenschel was appointed commandant of Auschwitz extermination camp, succeeding Rudolf Höß.

Nonetheless, he went on to investigate Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolf Höss on charges of having " unlawful relations " with a Jewish woman prisoner, Eleanor Hodys ; Höss was, for a time, removed from his command and these proceedings incidentally saved Hodys ' life.

* Rudolf Höss ( 1900 – 1947 ), German Nazi commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp

Most of the senior leaders of the camp, including Rudolf Höss, the longest-standing commandant of the camp, were turned over to Polish authorities in 1947, following their participation as witnesses in the Nuremberg Trial, at which time they were tried in Kraków and many sentenced to death.

Numerous future members and leaders of the Nazi Party had served in the Freikorps, including Ernst Röhm, future head of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, Heinrich Himmler, future head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, and Rudolf Höß, the future Kommandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Matisse's student Rudolf Levy was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

Testimonies on Auschwitz are provided by Rudolf Vrba, who escaped from the camp before the end of the war and Filip Müller, who worked in an incinerator burning the bodies from the gassings.

For example, in Part 4, we hear Filip Müller and Rudolf Vrba describe the liquidation of the family camp at Auschwitz.

Most of these allegations are completely unfounded, but the suggestion that he visited Auschwitz in the company of Adolf Eichmann, though denied by Eichmann himself at his trial, is based on an affidavit by Rudolf Kastner, drawing on testimony from Dieter Wisliceny.

* Rudolf Vrba-transferred to Auschwitz, from which he escaped, and about which he co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler report, one of the first inside reports of the camp, and published during wartime.

Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess.

* Modern History Sourcebook: Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony at Nuremberg, 1946

as a result was transferred from Auschwitz on the personal orders of Commandant Rudolf Höß.

* HOESS, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand ( 1900 – 47 ) Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.

As an example, he cites Nazi state official Rudolf Höss who organized the infamous death camp in Auschwitz.

Rudolf Höß, the Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, recalled his relationship towards Johanna Langefeld as follows:

He became assistant to Rudolf Höß, the Commandant at Auschwitz in 1940 and later the Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in April 1941.

In 1940, he accompanied Rudolf Höß to inspect Auschwitz as a possible site for a new synthetic coal oil and rubber plant, which was a vital industry in Germany given its shortage of oil.