4 May 1940 | Schutzhaftlagerführer (camp manager) of KL Sachsenhausen SS-Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Höss (in the picture from 1944) became formally nominated as the commandant of a new German concentration camp - #Auschwitz

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the „worst massmurder in history” he said about himself - to be read in his chilling “memoirs” - recorded before his execution 76 years ago

https://www.kulturkaufhaus.de/de/detail/ISBN-9781937727673/Hoess-Rudolf/The-Master-of-Auschwitz-Memoirs-of-Rudolf-Hoess-Kommandant-SS

@auschwitzmuseum Unfortunately he had still 2538 days to murder so many of humans, it is impossible to determine exactly.