Jun 29, 2015 · ‘Schizoid apathy’ concluded an American military psychologist, after interviewing Rudolph Hoess (pronounced, ironically, as ‘hearse’), shortly due to be hanged for his crimes as commandant of Auschwitz and notorious exterminator of Jewish prisoners. A mind simply blank to the horrors going on around him, year after year.

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also spelled Höß and Hoess; 1900/1901 – 16 April 1947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel), and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943 the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Jul 5, 2016 · An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half completed.

Feb 20, 2023 · Rudolf Hoess was a German SS officer during the Nazi era who, after the defeat of Nazi Germany, was convicted for war crimes. He was the longest-serving commandant of the Auschwitz...

Feb 26, 2024 · Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, provides a detailed and unflinching narrative of his role in the atrocities committed during World War II.

Oct 12, 2014 · Rudolf Hoss joined the German Army, became a member of the Nazis after WWI and later went on to be imprisoned for a murder. After being released he joins the SS, rises through the ranks until becoming Commandant of Auschwitz where he organises the massacre of Jews and any other political opponents.

Rudolph Hoess was Commandant of Auschwitz during the war. Taken prisoner by the British he was ordered to write his autobiography in the weeks between his trial and his execution. This is it."

Apr 6, 2000 · An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half completed.