Rudolf Höss LonGest sErving commandant at AuSchwitz concentration camp

On the twenty ninth of March, 1946; Rudolf Höff was convicted of over two and a half million counts of murder spanning from May 1940 to December 1943. The Auschwitz Concentration Camp, under Höss, induced a body count of nearly three and a half million dead. Rudolf Höss was sentenced to death by hanging.
ZyKlon B is the infamous inhalant that allowed the German Reich to exterminate their "undesirable" pollution on a massive scale. The gas is comprised of a cyanide-based pesticide that evaporated from the shower heads spraying water. Main gas chambers of Aucshwitz could hold around 1500-2000 people at one time.

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