Rudolf Höss
1901 to 1947
9 documented presences
7 places
Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for Rudolf Höss across 7 places, from 1923 to 1947. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Rudolf Höss was documented, and when
31 May 1923exact date
Mecklenburgattested
“On 31 May 1923, in Mecklenburg, Höss and members of the Freikorps attacked and beat to death local schoolteacher Walther Kadow on the wishes of farm supervisor Martin Bormann, who later became Hitler's private secretary.”
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6 February 1930exact date
Australiaattested
“They had five children: ## Klaus Höss: born 6 February 1930, died in Australia in the 1980s.”
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1 April 1934exact date
SS-Totenkopfverbändeattested
“On 1 April 1934, Höss joined the SS, on Himmler's effective call-to-action, and moved to the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SSDeath's Head Units) that same year.”
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18 January 1940exact date
Sachsenhausen concentration campattested
“On 18 January 1940, as head of the protective custody camp at Sachsenhausen, Höss ordered all prisoners not assigned to work details to stand outside in frigid conditions reaching .”
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1942year
Auschwitz concentration campattested
“With Zyklon B, he said that it took three to 15 minutes for the victims to die and that "we knew when the people were dead because they stopped screaming." In an interview at Nuremberg after the war, Höss commented that after observing t…”
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1942year
Nurembergattested
“With Zyklon B, he said that it took three to 15 minutes for the victims to die and that "we knew when the people were dead because they stopped screaming." In an interview at Nuremberg after the war, Höss commented that after observing t…”
source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Höss
November 1943month
Auschwitz concentration campattested
“Klaus, Höss' eldest son, was born in 1930; Heidetraut, Höss' eldest daughter, was born in 1932; Inge-Brigitt was born on a farm in Pommern in 1933; Hans-Jürgen, Höss' younger son, was born in 1937; and Annegret, the youngest child, was b…”
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November 1943month
Pommern, Rhineland-Palatinateattested
“Klaus, Höss' eldest son, was born in 1930; Heidetraut, Höss' eldest daughter, was born in 1932; Inge-Brigitt was born on a farm in Pommern in 1933; Hans-Jürgen, Höss' younger son, was born in 1937; and Annegret, the youngest child, was b…”
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29 March 1947exact date
Auschwitz concentration campattested
“In his essay on the Final Solution in Auschwitz, which Höss wrote in Kraków, he revised the previously given death toll: Höss' trial lasted from 11 to 29 March 1947 and he was sentenced to death by hanging on 2 April.”
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Places Rudolf Höss is documented in
Auschwitz concentration camp3 presences · 1942 to 1947Australia1 presence · 1930Nuremberg1 presence · 1942
Mecklenburg1 presence · 1923
Pommern, Rhineland-Palatinate1 presence · 1943
Sachsenhausen concentration camp1 presence · 1940
SS-Totenkopfverbände1 presence · 1934
Other places tied to Rudolf Höss in the record
In each of these, a source puts Rudolf Höss and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Rudolf Höss was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1922year
Munichmentioned
“After hearing a speech by Adolf Hitler in Munich, Höss joined the Nazi Party in 1922 (member number 3240) and renounced his affiliation with the Catholic Church.”
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December 1934month
Dachau concentration campmentioned
“Höss was assigned to the Dachau concentration camp in December 1934, where he held the post of Block leader.”
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1936 to 1946period
Englandmentioned
“In 1946, Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who had fled to England in 1936, becoming a Nazi hunter working for the British government's "No.”
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1938year
Sachsenhausen concentration campmentioned
“In 1938, Höss was promoted to SS-captain and was made adjutant to Hermann Baranowski in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.”
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June 1941month
Berlinmentioned
“In June 1941, according to Höss' trial testimony, he was summoned to Berlin for a meeting with Himmler "to receive personal orders".”
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8 May 1944exact date
Auschwitz concentration campmentioned
“On 8 May 1944, Höss returned to Auschwitz to supervise Operation Höss, where 430,000 Hungarian Jews were transported to the camp and killed in 56 days.”
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April 1945month
Darßmentioned
“In April 1945, Höss and his family went to Darss, together with Richard Glücks, before continuing to Schleswig-Holstein.”
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5 April 1946exact date
Polish People's Republicmentioned
“In his affidavit made at Nuremberg on 5 April 1946, Höss stated: On 25 May 1946, Höss was handed over to Polish authorities, and the Supreme National Tribunal in Poland tried him for murder.”
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15 April 1946exact date
Nuremberg Trialsmentioned
“On 15 April 1946, Höss testified at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, where he gave a detailed accounting of his crimes.”
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15 April 1946exact date
Nurembergmentioned
“On 15 April 1946, Höss testified at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, where he gave a detailed accounting of his crimes.”
source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Höss
Documented at the same place, the same year
Edith SteinAuschwitz concentration camp · 1942Maria MandlAuschwitz concentration camp · 1947Irma GreseAuschwitz concentration camp · 1943Alexander LöhrAuschwitz concentration camp · 1943Hans AumeierAuschwitz concentration camp · 1943Richard GlücksAuschwitz concentration camp · 1943
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