Tadeusz Pietrzykowski
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Tadeusz Pietrzykowski was a Polish boxer, Polish Armed Forces soldier, and a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Neuengamme concentration camps run by the German Nazis during World War II. He was p
Tadeusz Pietrzykowski
Rudolf Höss
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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
Tadeusz Pietrzykowski
…directly under Witold Pilecki. A few months later he took part in an assassination attempt against a high-ranking German officer in the camp, commandant Rudolf Höss, by helping to sabotage the saddle of Höss' horse. The assassination attempt failed, but resulted in Höss breaking a leg. The incident was classified…
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.