Rudolf Höss

Rudolf Höss was a German SS officer who served as the commandant of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp during World War II. He was responsible for overseeing the operations of the camp, which included the mass murder of six million Jews and others considered undesirable by the Nazi regime. Höss played a key role in organizing and carrying out these atrocities. After the war, he was captured, tried for war crimes, and executed in 1947. His actions exemplify the brutal efficiency of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed under Nazi ideology.