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 ).

This first statement of the previously uncodified rules and articles of war led to the first prosecution for war crimes — in the case of United States prisoners of war held in cruel and depraved conditions at Andersonville, Georgia, in which the Confederate commandant of that camp was tried and hanged, the only Confederate soldier to be punished by death in the aftermath of the entire Civil War.

* 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.

Irmfried Eberl presided as the camp's first commandant on.

Karl-Otto Koch ( August 2, 1897 – April 5, 1945 ), a Standartenführer ( Colonel ) in the German Schutzstaffel ( SS ), was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, and later also served as a commander at the Majdanek concentration camp.

Genevieve was transacted at Kaskaskia until about 1766 when the first commandant, Philippe de Rocheblave, was installed at Ste.

The post at Fort Jones was established by its first commandant, Captain ( brevet Major ) Edward H. Fitzgerald, E Company, 1st U. S. Dragoons.

He was, therefore, an obvious choice to be the first commandant of the first extermination camp in the General Government.

After the earlier disasters in 1870, he was appointed by the emperor first commandant of the troops of Châlons camp, and soon afterwards ( 17 August ) governor of Paris and commander-in-chief of all the forces destined for the defence of the capital, including some 120, 000 regular troops, 80, 000 mobiles, and 330, 000 National Guards.

High on ginger, he shoots the commandant of the Race's forward base to which he had been assigned and leads the first mutiny the Race has ever known.

The first significant colonial settlement in the region dates from 1804, when the commandant of the British garrison Lt. Col. William Paterson, and his men set up a camp where George Town now stands.

After four months ' treatment in England, though, he was pronounced to be again fit for duty and in May became the first commandant of the new cavalry school at Netheravon.

Whilst commandant on Norfolk Island, King formed a relationship with the female convict Ann Inett – their first son, born on 8 January 1789, was named Norfolk.

The first SS commandant of the castle, SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Erich Schupping, envisioned a kind of Nordic academy.

* C R Samson – Initial commandant of the RFC Naval Wing, led the first armoured car units on the Western Front, later Air Officer Commanding RAF units in the Mediterranean

* Ignacy Oziewicz, the first commandant of Narodowe Sily Zbrojne

At first all went well for André since the post commandant Lieutenant Colonel John Jameson decided to send him to Arnold, never suspecting that a high-ranking hero of the Revolution could be a turncoat, but then Major Benjamin Tallmadge, head of Continental Army Intelligence, arrived and persuaded Jameson to bring the prisoner back.

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.

Colonel Colleen L. McGuire, the first female commandant of the USDB, said in 2002 that the new facility is " much more efficient in design and layout – much brighter and lighter.

He served as the first commandant of the new fort.

The Yard was built under the direction of Benjamin Stoddert, the first Secretary of the Navy, under the supervision of the Yard's first commandant, Commodore Thomas Tingey, who served in that capacity for 29 years.

Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

In 1931, the castle gardens were first opened to the public, and are now open daily between April and the end of July, after which the Queen arrives for her annual stay.

The town, first mentioned in 902, grew up by the castle ( Babenberch ) which gave its name to the Babenberg family.

The castle is mentioned for the first time in Chrétien de Troyes ' poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, dating to the 1170s, though it does not appear in all the manuscripts.

One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.

In the published version of Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff's name is always unmetrical, suggesting a name change after the original composition ; Prince Hal refers to Falstaff as " my old lad of the castle " in the first act of the play ; the epilogue to Henry IV, Part II, moreover, explicitly disavows any connection between Falstaff and Oldcastle, a dancer declaring: "... where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already ' a be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr and this is not the man ".

But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808.

This second castle was built by the first known member of the dynasty, Duke Frederick I.

The first concerns King Arthur ’ s knights visiting the Grail castle or questing after the object ; the second concerns the Grail ’ s history in the time of Joseph of Arimathea.

In Wolfram von Eschenbach's telling, the Grail was kept safe at the castle of Munsalvaesche ( mons salvationis ), entrusted to Titurel, the first Grail King.

Thomas built the first great hall at the castle from 1314 to 1317 and constructed the Water Tower along the outer bailey, as well as increasing the size of the chase.

In accordance with his will, the castle passed first to his brother Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, and after the latter's death in 1590, to his illegitimate son, Sir Robert Dudley.

The first guidebook to the castle, A Concise history and description of Kenilworth Castle, was printed in 1777 with many later editions following in the coming decades.

The castle was first built by a Norman baron in c. 1100 on a cliff above the River Nidd.

He established a new castle which was first mentioned by Helmold in 1147.

However, the monastery was built after the castle and founded around the time of the first written mention of the name.

About 800, the first castle buildings arose on the Limburg crags.

The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.

In 994 Otto III granted the right of market, tax and coining and established the first market place to the north of the castle hill.

The same year Rhys is recorded as an independent commander for the first time, leading an army to capture the Norman castle of St Clears.

An appeal to the king produced no response, and Rhys resorted to arms, first capturing Clifford's castle at Llandovery then seizing Ceredigion.

Rhys first appealed to the king to intercede, then when this failed invaded Ceredigion and recaptured all of it apart from the town and castle of Cardigan.

At the same time, James Douglas made his first foray for Bruce into south-western Scotland, attacking and burning his own castle in Douglasdale.

The track themes in Super Mario Kart influenced later games in the series ; recurring themes that first appeared in Super Mario Kart include haunted tracks, Bowser's castle and Rainbow Road.