Rudolf Höss
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Rudolf Höss was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer who served as the first and longest-serving commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, overseeing the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people during the Holocaust.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Nazi official
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SS officer → human → war criminal → |
| arrestedBy |
British Army
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| causeOfDeath |
execution by hanging
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| citizenship |
Germany
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| commanded |
Auschwitz I (Stammlager)
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Auschwitz II-Birkenau → |
| convictedOf |
crimes against humanity
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war crimes → |
| countryOfBirth |
German Empire
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| countryOfDeath |
Poland
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| dateOfArrest |
1946-03-11
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| dateOfBirth |
1901-11-25
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| dateOfDeath |
1947-04-16
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| employer |
SS Economic and Administrative Main Office
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SS-Totenkopfverbände → |
| familyName |
Höss
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| fullName |
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss
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| givenName |
Rudolf
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| ideology |
Nazism
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| joinedOrganization |
Nazi Party in 1922
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SS in 1934 → |
| languageSpoken |
German
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| laterReligion |
lapsed Catholic
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| memberOf |
Nazi Party
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Schutzstaffel → |
| militaryRank |
SS-Obersturmbannführer
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| notableFor |
being the first commandant of Auschwitz
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organizing industrialized mass murder at Auschwitz → |
| notableWork |
autobiographical memoirs written in prison
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| numberOfChildren |
5
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| oversaw |
construction of crematoria at Auschwitz
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construction of gas chambers at Auschwitz → |
| participatedIn |
Holocaust
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World War II → |
| placeOfBirth |
Baden-Baden
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| placeOfDeath |
Auschwitz
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| placeOfExecution |
Auschwitz concentration camp
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| positionHeld |
chief of the department I in the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA)
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commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp → deputy inspector of concentration camps → |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism (raised)
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| responsibleFor |
implementation of mass gassing with Zyklon B at Auschwitz
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overseeing extermination of Jews during the Holocaust at Auschwitz → |
| spouse |
Hedwig Hensel
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| triedBy |
Supreme National Tribunal of Poland
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Referenced by (3)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Rudolf Höss
("Höss")
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familyName |
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Rudolf Höss
("Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss")
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fullName |
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
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notablePerpetrator |