1947/04/02 – Verurteilung Rudolf Höss Warschau

2 April 1947

The Supreme National Tribunal in Warsaw, Poland, sentences Rudolf Höss, the first camp commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, to death for the crimes he committed there, including against Sinti and Roma. The execution by hanging takes place on 16 April 1947 on the former Auschwitz camp grounds (Stammlager).

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