Rudolf Höss
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Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß (in English commonly Hoess or Höss or rarely Hoeß; November 25 1900 - April 16 1947) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lt. Colonel) and from May 4, 1940 to November 1943 was commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.
Early life
Höß was born on November 25 1900 in Baden-Baden into a strict Catholic family. Despite his father's wishes that he become a priest, he voluntarily joined the German Army's 21st Regiment of Dragoons and was sent to fight in Turkey, Iraq and Palestine during World War I. While stationed in Turkey he rose to the rank of Feldwebel and at the age of 17 was the youngest NCO in the Army and holder of the Iron Cross first and second class, among other medals. Höß also briefly served as commander of a cavalry unit.
After the end of the war, Höß became a fighter for the East Prussian Volunteer Corps and then the Freikorps Roßbach. Höß participated in patriotic actions against French occupation forces in the Ruhr as well as against the Poles in the struggle for Silesia.
In 1929 he married Hedwig Hensel. They had five children together.
Capture and subsequent treatment
At the end of the war Höß went into hiding. British military police threatened his wife and son with imprisonment in the hands of the Russians. They were terrorised into talking. The police found him on a farm in Schleswig Holstein. Sergeant Clark, a Jew and other sergeants beat him until they were ordered off to prevent murder. They let him walk naked in cold, and gave him only alcohol to drink, they did not let him sleep. After a subsequent three days of gross mishandling he broke and told them whatever they wanted. He signed a confession, gave evidence at Nuremberg war trials, was sent back to Poland, tried, convicted and subsequently hanged. Rupert Butler tells this in Legions of Death on pages 232 et seq. Bernard Clark became a successful Jewish businessman in the south of England.
