Rudolf franz ferdinand hoss was a german schutzstaffel ss functionary during the nazi era who was later convicted as a war criminal. Statement made voluntarily at minden gaol by rudolf hoess, former commandant of auschwitz concentration camp, on the 20th of march 1946. Commandants the ss garrison history auschwitzbirkenau. This book was written by the commandant of auschwitz while he was awaiting trial and execution. Testimony at nuremburg, 1946 rudolf hoess born in 1900, joined the ss in 1933, and eventually commanded the massive extermination center of auschwitz, whose name has come to symbolize humanitys ultimate descent into evil. Pdf the saboteur of auschwitz download read online free. Hoss was relieved of his duties as the commandant of the auschwitz complex at the end of november 1943 and promoted to a position in the economic administration head office whva in oranienburg. Sep 01, 2000 the commandant of auschwitz rudolf hoess follows the same line of argument that manstein so carefully crafted over a long period. I was commandant of the concentration camp auschwitz from 1 may 1940 to the first of december 1943. Pdf commandant of auschwitz download full pdf book. As commandant of auschwitz, i was responsible for carrying out part of the cruel plans of the third reich for human destruction. The staff was assisted by several privileged prisoners who were given better food, conditions, and opportunity to survive, if they agreed to enforce the brutal.
The first commandant of auschwitz was ssobersturmbannfuhrer rudolf hoss may 1940november 1943. In so doing i have inflicted terrible wounds on humanity. Auschwitz is a place of unparalleled horror and the site of the largest mass murder in history. Rudolf hoess, the commandant of auschwitz, confessed to. He tested and implemented means to accelerate hitlers plan to systematically exterminate the jewish. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Auschwitz was first run by camp commandant rudolf hoess, and was guarded by a cruel regiment of the ss death head units. Leading scholars from the united states, israel, poland, and other european countries provide a comprehensive account of what took place at the auschwitz death camp. Commandant of auschwitz download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. Yet when hoss was captured after the war, he confessed to having killed some 2,500,000 during that time. He was the longestserving commandant of auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. In 1987, i published a book devoted to hosss various postwar statements mattogno 1987.
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He was in charge of auschwitz concentration camp for about four years during world war ii, nazi germany, led by adolf hitler, decided to exterminate kill all of the jewish people in europe. Rudolf hoess, the commandant of auschwitz, confessed to the. On 25 november 1947, the auschwitz trial began in krakow, when polands supreme national tribunal brought to court 40 former auschwitz staff, including commandant arthur liebehenschel, womens camp leader maria mandel, and camp leader hans aumeier. It consisted of auschwitz i, the main camp stammlager in oswiecim. Pdf downloads of all 1297 litcharts literature guides, and of every new one we publish.
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