Source: Commandant of Auschwitz: the Autobiography of Rudolf Höss (London, 1959), 144–145. “The Führer commands, we follow”, was never a mere phrase or slogan. If the Führer had himself given the order for the “final solution of the Jewish question”, then, for a veteran National-Socialist and even more so for an SS officer, there could be no question of considering its merits. I did not reflect on it at the time: I had been given an order, and I had to carry it out. Nevertheless the reasons behind the extermination program seemed to me right. It was certainly an extraordinary and monstrous order. When in the summer of 1941 he himself gave me the order to prepare installations at Auschwitz where mass exterminations could take place, and personally to carry out these exterminations, I did not have the slightest idea of their scale or consequences. Höss: By the will of the Reichsführer SS, Auschwitz became the greatest human extermination centre of all time. La sentence a été exécutée le16 Avril 1947.ĭes mémoires de R. Après la guerre, jugé par le Tribunal suprême national polonais et condamné à mort. Rudolf Höss, né le 25 Novembre 1900, SS-Obersturmbannführer, commandant du camp d'Auschwitz entre 1940 et 1943. Les officiers des camps - notes biographiques et témoignages des temoins.
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