Rudolf Hoss
Rudolf Hoss (November 25, 1900 – April 16, 1947) was a German SS officer and commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He played a key role in the Holocaust, overseeing the mass murder of over one million people, primarily Jews, through the use of gas chambers and other methods. After the war, he testified at the Nuremberg trials and was executed by hanging in 1947 in Poland.








