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Rudolf H�ss
Rudolf Hoss at the opening of the SS Lazarett in Auschwitz 1944
Rudolf H�ss was born in Baden-Baden on 25 November 1900, the son of pious Catholic parents.
Rudolf hoss biography
His father, a shopkeeper who wanted his son to become a Roman Catholic priest, was a dogmatic, overpowering influence in his early life. After his father�s death, the fifteen-year old Rudolf H�ss secretly joined the army, serving on the Turkish front and becoming at seventeen the youngest NCO in the German forces, as well as receiving the Iron Cross (First and Second Classes) for bravery.One year after the defeat of Germany, in 1919 he joined the East Prussian Volunteer Corps for Protection of the Frontier and became a member of the Rossbach Freikorps, taking part in battles in the Baltic region, the Ruhr and Upper Silesia.
In 1923 he was involved in a brutal political murder, the so-called Parchim Feme and was sentenced to ten years in prison. One of his accomplices in the murder was Martin Bormann, who subse