Commandant Of Auschwitz

Author : Rudolf Hoess
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1684227852

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Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess by Rudolf Hoess Pdf

2023 Reprint of the 1959 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Rudolf Hoess [also Höss] 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 concentration and extermination camp (from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, and again from 8 May 1944 to 18 January 1945). He tested and implemented means to accelerate Hitler's order to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe, known as the Final Solution. On the initiative of one of his subordinates Hoess introduced the pesticide Zyklon B to be used in gas chambers, where more than a million people were killed. Hoess was hanged in 1947 following a trial before the Polish Supreme National Tribunal. During his imprisonment, at the request of the Polish authorities, he wrote his memoirs, released in English under the title Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. Like most things in his life, Hoess undertook the autobiography with great diligence. A careful checking by researchers showed he took great pains to tell the truth. The result: a vivid and unforgettable picture of the 20th century's defining and most horrific event.

Author : Rudolf Höss
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1842120247

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Commandant Of Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss Pdf

Rudolph Hoess was Commandant of Auschwitz during the war. Taken prisoner by the British, between his trial and execution he was ordered to write his autobiography. Careful checking has shown he took great pains to tell the truth in this unique document.

Author : Rudolf Höss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Concentration camp commandants
ISBN : IND:32000002865964

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Commandant of Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss Pdf

A first-person account by the SS captain who arranged the gassing of two million people at Auschwitz between 1941-1943.

Author : Volker Koop
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473886902

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The Commandant of Auschwitz by Volker Koop Pdf

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.

Author : Rudolf Hoss
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781616140083

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Death Dealer by Rudolf Hoss Pdf

By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Höss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first complete translation of Höss's memoirs into English. These bone-chilling memoirs were written between October 1946 and April 1947. At the suggestion of Professor Sanislaw Batawia, a psychologist, and Professor Jan Shen, the prosecuting attorney for the Polish War Crimes Commission in Warsaw, Höss wrote a lengthy and detailed description of how the camp developed, his impressions of the various personalities with whom he dealt, and even the extermination of millions in the gas chambers. This written testimony is perhaps the most important document attesting to the Holocaust, because it is the only candid, detailed, and (for the most part) honest description of the Final Solution from a high-ranking SS officer intimately involved in carrying out the plans of Hitler and Himmler. With the cold objectivity of a common hit-man, Höss chronicles the discovery of the most effective poison gas, and the technical obstacles that often thwarted his aim to kill as efficiently as possible. Staring at the horror without reacting, Höss allowed conditions at Auschwitz to reduce human beings to walking skeletons - then he labelled them as subhumans fit only to die. Readers will witness Höss's shallow rationalizations as he tries to balance his deeds with his increasingly disturbed, yet always ineffectual, conscience.

Author : Rudolf Höss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Concentration camp commandants
ISBN : 071564162X

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The Commandant by Rudolf Höss Pdf

Rudolf Hoess was the first commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Imprisoned and awaiting execution after the war, Hoess wrote a large-scale autobiography, which Jurg Amann has artfully edited to produce a monstrous monologue in Hoess's own words - The Commandant. In addition to Hoess's early childhood and ascent through the ranks of the SS, it presents the atrocities and mass executions at Auschwitz from the perspective of the camp's highest overseer. This firsthand account provides disturbing insight into Hitler's 'final solution' and into the nature of evil itself.

Author : Thomas Harding
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476711850

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Hanns and Rudolf by Thomas Harding Pdf

Chronicles the lesser-known story of an intrepid Jewish investigator who pursued and captured notorious Nazi Germany war criminals Rudolf Höss, in an account that explains how the case continues to impact today's world.

Author : Rudolf Höss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Concentration camp commandants
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080724953

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Commandant of Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss Pdf

A first-person account by the SS captain who arranged the gassing of two million people at Auschwitz between 1941-1943.

Author : John W. Primomo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476639420

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Architect of Death at Auschwitz by John W. Primomo Pdf

Rudolf Hoss has been called the greatest mass murderer in history. As the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, he supervised the killing of more than 1.1 million people. Unlike many of his Nazi colleagues who denied either knowing about or participating in the Holocaust, Hoss remorselessly admitted, both at the Nuremberg war crimes trial and in his memoirs, that he sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers, frankly describing the killing process. His "innovations" included the use of hydrogen cyanide (derived from the pesticide Zyklon B) in the camp's gas chambers. Hoss lent his name to the 1944 operation that gassed 430,000 Hungarian Jews in 56 days, exceeding the capacity of the Auschwitz's crematoria. This biography follows Hoss throughout his life, from his childhood through his Nazi command and eventual reckoning at Nuremberg. Using historical records and Hoss' autobiography, it explores the life and mind of one of history's most notorious and sadistic individuals.

Author : Rudolf Hoess
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1842120247

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Commandant Of Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoess Pdf

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. Before this he had worked in other concentration camps, and afterwards he was at the Inspectorate in Berlin. He thus knew more, both at first-hand and as an administrator, about Nazi Germany's greatest crime than did any save two or three other men. Taken prisoner by the British, he was handed over to the Poles, tried, sentenced to death, and taken back to Auschwitz and there hanged. During the period between his trial and his execution, he was ordered to write his autobiography. This is it. Hoess repeatedly says he was glad to write the book. He enjoyed the work. And finally the most careful checking has shown that he took great pains to tell the truth. Here we have, painted by his own hand, a vivid and unforgettable self-portrait of one of the great monsters of all time. To this are added portraits of some of his more spectacular fellow-criminals. The royalties from this macabre but historically important book go to the fund set up to help the few survivors from the Auschwitz camps.

Author : Rudolf Höss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Concentration camp commandants
ISBN : UOM:39015004005099

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Commandant of Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss Pdf

Author : Barbara U Cherish
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752462264

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The Auschwitz Kommandant by Barbara U Cherish Pdf

Barbara Cherish's upbringing in Nazi-occupied Poland was one of relative wealth and comfort. But her father's senior position in the Nazi Party meant that she and her brothers and sisters lived on a knife edge. In 1943 he became commandant of perhaps the most infamous of all the concentration camps: Auschwitz. The author tells her father's story with clarity and without judgement, detailing his relationship with his family and his unceasing love for his mistress, as well as the very separate life he led as a senior officer of the SS. Captured by the US Army at the end of the war, he was held at Dachau and Nuremberg before being extradited to Poland. He was tried in the 'Auschwitz Trial' at Krakow, found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed in January 1948. A unique insider's view of the dark heart of the Third Reich, it is also a heartbreaking tale of a family torn apart that will open the eyes of even the most well-read historian.

Author : Rudolf Hoess
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468300918

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The Commandant by Rudolf Hoess Pdf

This chilling memoir presents “a graphic and compelling self-portrait” of the Nazi war criminal who oversaw Auschwitz concentration camp (Jewish Book World). SS officer Rudolph Hoess was the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by the Polish Supreme National Tribunal. The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnel factory where the industrialization of death was practiced—where probably three million people were literally worked to death, shot or gassed—is still almost beyond belief today. Editor Jurg Amann has taken Hoess's text and produced a work of vital historical importance. The Commandant presents an excruciating insight into Hitler's Final Solution and the nature of evil itself through the prism of the Nazis' totalitarian system, one Hoess and so many others felt no need to question. Ian Buruma's introduction sets this frightening work within a both moral and historical context.

Author : Joseph Tenenbaum
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257949

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Auschwitz In Retrospect: The Self-Portrait Of Rudolf Hoess, Commander Of Auschwitz by Joseph Tenenbaum Pdf

Joseph Tenenbaum sketches a portrait of the infamous “Commandant of Auschwitz”, Rudolf Hoess. “Rudolf Hoess has killed more people than any man in history, and Auschwitz was the greatest charnel house of all times. There has been no dearth of publications about the place or the person. [...] It seems that after a period of repudiation of the crimes and apologia for them, we are entering an era of memoirs by boastful generals and complacent Nazi small fry, eager to bask in the sun of regained self-confidence and unregenerate Nazi mentality. The Hoess memoirs are an exception to both trends. His revelations are neither apologetic nor an attempt at vindication. The memoirs are indeed a unique literary document, in which the author is trying to explain, first and foremost himself to himself, Hoess to Hoess, and incidentally also to shed light on the most hidden mainsprings of a mind gone criminal.”—From Author’s Preface

Author : Carlo Mattogno,Rudolf Höss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Holocaust denial literature
ISBN : 1591489512

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Commandant of Auschwitz by Carlo Mattogno,Rudolf Höss Pdf

After the war, Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, was captured, tortured and put on trial. This study analyzes all of Höss's post-war statements, checking them for internal consistency and comparing them with established historical facts.