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When did Rudolf Höss die?

  • 16 April 1947

  • 22 February 1958

  • 30 March 1960

  • 18 May 1962

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Rudolf Höss was an Austrian SS officer who was convicted of war crimes during the Nuremberg Trials and executed by hanging on 16 April 1947. Höss was the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 to 1943 and was responsible for the deaths of over 1 million people. He was also involved in the planning and execution of the Holocaust.
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