Rudolf Hoess And The Holocaust

Rudolf Hoess Rudolf Hoess was architect and commandant of the largest killing ever created. The death camp was called Auschwitz. On May 1, 1940, Rudolf was appointed commandant of a camp in western poland. The camp was built near a town called Oswiecim. Hoess was commandant for three and a half years. He expanded the original facility which went into a sprawling complex name by Auschwitz. September 3, 1941 Hoess began his job after visiting Treblinka and learning about how they did human extermination. Rudolf made Auschwitz better than Treblinka by making his gas chambers bigger to kill 2,000 people rather than 200 at a time. Hoess tried a lot of different ways of gassing the Jews. In the early days he used cotton soaked with sulfuric acid then he introduced hydrogen cyanide which killed people within three to fifteen. He said “we knew they were dead because they stopped screaming.” In the last days of the war, Himmler told Hoess to disguise himself among the German Navy personnel. He got away from being arrested for years. On March 11, 1946, he was arrested by British troops. He was disguised as a farmer as he called himself Franz Lang.
Hoess was captured and asked questions and then beaten before he finally told them his true identity. When he had his trial in poland he was never denying of the crimes he did as he was just saying he was following orders. He was not scared of what was going to happen to him. He said only 1 million and half were died at the most. He was sentenced to get hung on April 2, 1947. His sentence was carried out April 16. The gallows constructed specifically for that reason. Located at camp