Baden-Baden is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres east of the Rh
View of Baden-Baden from Mount Merkur
Baden-Baden in 1910
Old town (Altstadt)
Florentine Hill (Florentinerberg), with the New Castle (top right), the Caracalla Spa (lower right), and the Friedrichsbad (lower left)
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was a German SS officer, a war criminal, and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he lived unde
Baden-Baden
…Wilhelm Brückner (1884–1954), officer and chief adjutant of Adolf Hitler Rudolf Höss (1900–1947), Nazi, SS commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, executed for war crimes Leopold Gutterer (1902–1996), Nazi state secretary in the…
Höss in 1944
Appointment order of Rudolf Höss as Commander of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Höss (far right) with commander of Auschwitz I Richard Baer and Auschwitz chief medical officer Josef Mengele in 1944
The ramp at Birkenau, 1944. Chimneys of Crematoria II and III are visible on the horizon.