BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 16th of April 1947 78 years ago |
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![]() SS-Obersturmbannführer and longest serving commandant of Auschwitz-KZ Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau, Birkenau, Małopolska, Poland. ![]() Höss was hanged on a short drop gallows constructed specifically for that purpose, at the location of the camp Gestapo. |
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