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The Commandant of Auschwitz

Name: The Commandant of Auschwitz
Author: Volker Koop

Rudolf Höss

Volker Koop,

216 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

The Commandant of Auschwitz

Rudolf Höss

Volker Koop,

About this book

The renowned WWII historian's definitive biography of the notorious German SS officer convicted of war crimes for his role in the Holocaust.

Described as one of the greatest mass-murderers in history, Rudolf Höss was the longest-serving commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Poland. He was one of the chief architects behind Hitler's Final Solution. In The Commandant of Auschwitz, Volker Koop details Höss's military career, his conversion to Nazi ideology, and his ruthless commitment to the Nazi cause.

At the age of fourteen, Höss joined the 21st Regiment of Dragoons and rose through the ranks to become the youngest non-commissioned officer in the German Army. After joining the Nazi party in 1922, he was convicted of participating in at least one political assassination, for which he spent six years in prison.

In 1934, Höss became a Block Leader at Dachau concentration camp. By 1940, he would be given command of his own camp near the town of Auschwitz. Charged with carrying out the Final Solution of the Jewish question, Höss set about his task with relish. By his own estimation, he was responsible for the deaths of at least 3,000,000 individuals.

Justice caught up with Höss after the German surrender. He was arrested on March 11th, 1946, after a year of posing as a gardener under a false name. He was found guilty of war crimes and hanged on April 16th, 1947.

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