Rudolf Höss
![Höss at [[Solahütte]], 1944](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Rudolf_Hoess%2C_Auschwitz._Album_H%C3%B6cker_%28cropped%29%28b%29.jpg)
Höss was the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz Concentration 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, Karl Fritzsch, Höss introduced the pesticide Zyklon B to be used in gas chambers, where more than a million people were killed.
Höss was hanged in 1947 following a trial before the Polish Supreme National Tribunal. During his imprisonment, at the request of the Polish authorities, Höss wrote his memoirs, released in English under the title ''Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess''. Provided by Wikipedia
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