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    Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; German: [hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of...
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  • 1944, Höss continues downstairs, descending into darkness. Christian Friedel as Rudolf Höss Sandra Hüller as Hedwig Höss Johann Karthaus as Klaus Höss Luis...
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  • (French: La mort est mon métier). The protagonist, Rudolf Lang, was closely based on the real Rudolf Höß, commandant of the concentration camp of Auschwitz...
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    Flensburg, see Höss 2003, p. 173; for Höss's testimony, see The International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg 1946, p. 396ff. Lasik 1998b, p. 296. Höss 2003, Publisher's...
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  • in the Grabner case. Hodys died in Vienna in 1964. Rainer Höss, the grandson of Rudolf Höss, has become an active voice in Holocaust education and preaching...
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  • who tracked down and arrested Gustav Simon, a Nazi Party official, and Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz. Born in Berlin to father Alfred Alexander...
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  • The film focuses on the story of Jurgen Höss, the son of Auschwitz concentration camp director Rudolf Höss, and his boyhood home life in the villa adjacent...
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  • May 31, 1923) was a German school teacher who was beaten and killed by Rudolf Höss and a group of Nazi Party accomplices in May 1923 in the forest near...
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  • Höss (German: [hœs]) is a German surname and can refer to several people including: Maria Crescentia Höss (1682–1744), Roman Catholic saint Otto Höss...
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    and gassing. As a result, the Germans called the murders Aktion Höss ("Operation Höss"). The first train left Budapest on 29 April 1944 carrying 1,800...
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    Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Hans Frank, Oswald Pohl, Otto Ohlendorf, Rudolf Höss, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, among others. Gilbert and Kelley administered...
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    Netflix television thriller series Babylon Berlin (2017–present) and as Rudolf Höss in the 2023 drama The Zone of Interest. Friedel has appeared in films...
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    camp, commandant Rudolf Höss, by helping to sabotage the saddle of Höss' horse. The assassination attempt failed, but resulted in Höss breaking a leg....
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    was appointed commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp, succeeding Rudolf Höss. While continuing mass executions, he made some minor "improvements"...
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    commandant Rudolf Höss. Among the SS officers photographed at Solahütte were Oswald Pohl (executed through the Nuremberg Tribunal), Höss (executed through...
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    (2014), centered around a fictionalized version of the camp commandant Rudolf Höss. It was used later by Jonathan Glazer for his 2023 film of the same name...
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    During the Nuremberg Trials, Rudolf Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, testified that Himmler had told Höss to receive all operational...
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    responsible for the death of priest Maximilian Kolbe and, according to Rudolf Höss, first suggesting using poisonous gas Zyklon B and experimenting with...
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    camp. From Dachau, it was copied by the Nazi officer Rudolf Höss, who had previously worked there. Höss was appointed to create the original camp at Auschwitz...
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    Johanna Langefeld as SS-Lagerführerin of the women camp under SS-Kommandant Rudolf Höß. As a woman she could never outrank a male,[citation needed] but her control...
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  • Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz is a dual biography of Hanns Alexander and Rudolf Höss by the British-American...
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    estate. He served nearly a year in prison as an accomplice to his friend Rudolf Höss (later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp) in the murder of Walther...
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    regime. Commanding the firing squad that murdered Dickmann was SS officer Rudolf Höss, who was later to become the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz...
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    Freud. Koch has portrayed historically significant personalities, among Rudolf Höss in Costa-Gavras Hochhuth's adaptation Amen (Der Stellvertreter). He appeared...
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  • name Rudolf Höß, whose life was the model for the film, the pseudonym Franz Lang is used, in order that he remain anonymous. The real Rudolf Höß had gone...
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    able to use it without any further training or governmental oversight. Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, said that the use of Zyklon-B to murder prisoners...
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    several later films - the German town mayor in The Young Lions (1958), Rudolf Höss in Operation Eichmann (1961, opposite Werner Klemperer as Adolf Eichmann)...
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    dignitaries, and building works on behalf of the camp's commandant, Rudolf Höss. The Erkennungsdienst also took photographs of inmates, including gassings...
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  • crimes, the most notable of which were the trials of camp commanders Rudolf Höss and Robert Mulka, as well as several others tried between 1946 and 1948...
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    director and deputy director of the Erkennungsdienst. The camp's director, Rudolf Höss, also may have taken several of the photographs himself. The album has...
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