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AUSCHWITZ:
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Photo 20
(Photo
by the author)
The “mythical” manuscript and/or
“notorious forgery” of Rudolph Hoess’ memoirs. Entitled: “Mein
Psyche, Werden, Leben und Erleben” [My Psyche, Life and
Experience] conserved in the PMO archives. Published in England by
Pan Books under the title “Commandant of Auschwitz” .
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Photo 21:
[PMO neg. no. 1255]
SS Lieutenant-Colonel
Rudoph Hoess, former commandant of Auschwitz and then head of
Department D1 of the SS-WVHA Concentration Camp Inspectorate,
arrested by the British on 11 February [March in the public version]
1946 in Flensburg in the north of Schleswig-Holstein under the
pseudonym of Franz Lang, after his appearance before the Nuremberg
Tribunal on 5th April as a witness for the defense of Kaltenbrunner.
Handed over by the Americans to the Polish authorities on 25th May
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Photo
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[PMO neg. no. 1251] |
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Photo 23:
[PMO
neg. no. 1256] |
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| Ex commandant of Auschwitz,
Rudolph Franz Ferdinand Hoess at the opening of his trial before the
Polish Supreme Court in Warsaw on 11th March 1947. |
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The accused, Hoess, founder of
the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during his trial in
Warsaw, held from 11th to 29th March 1947 |
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Photo 24:
[PMO neg. no. 1257] |
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Photo 25:
[PMO
neg. no. 1259] |
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| Hoess, the technician of planned
death, during the reading of the charges drawn up by Judge Jan Sehn.
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Hoess, condemned to death by a
sentence passed in the name of the Polish Republic on 2nd April
1947, shortly before his being hanged on 16th April 1947 behind
Krematorium I in the Auschwitz main camp.
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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