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...Poland a German war criminal saw his last dawn. Convicted of sending 4,000,000 people to death, Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) extermination camp, was hanged on the same gallows where many of his victims had died...
Even by his own dilution of the blood on his hands, Hoess was history's top killer, the master of mass atrocity. The number of lives he had taken in Germany's horror camp at Auschwitz (Oswiecim) far exceeded the largest total in any historically accepted account of the world's bloodiest massacres. The tolls of all the recorded pogroms did not add up to the 2,800,000 Jewish lives which ended at Auschwitz...
...said: "There are five different sorts of spots. . . . My mother was caught with spots at the parade in Oswiecim. Off she went...
Officially, Europe's gypsies were to be liquidated as a political and social menace to the German State. But to Rudolf Hoess* their innocent arrival at his camp was always excellent private entertainment. Life at Oswiecim had grown rather dull. True, Hoess had the satisfaction of having built up Oswiecim from a mere Polish artillery barracks to Germany's most up-&-coming death camp. And of course he could always find some amusement at the gas chambers, the first three of which he had constructed himself with great pioneering ingenuity...
...exile led to 'the arrest of his wife Cecylia and his son Marjan, who were still in the homeland. Both survived long imprisonment. Both are now in England. Until Mme. Mikolajczyk dies, she will bear upon her hand Slave Number 64023, branded there by the Nazis of Oswiecim...