The Special Execution Of The Commandant Of Auschwitz

Rudolph Hearst the commandant of Auschwitz is remembered today as one of the most evil war criminals and Nazis of the second World War he was a man who would brazenly at the Nuremberg trials admit that he was involved in the slaughter of Millions and he would also seemingly be proud of his actions in building the deadliest concentration camp of the war he was a man who tried to hide out at the end of the conflict and was trying to evade capture in the hope of rebuilding his life in a post-war Germany but this was not the case and at the age of 45 Rudolph Hearst was executed but his death sentence and execution was incredibly unique and it was one of only a few of war criminals that occurred at the very same place that he would work and inflict such pain and suffering join us today's look at the special death sentence of the commandant of Auschwitz and remember to support our Channel please make sure to subscribe Rudolph Hearst was a man who would build Auschwitz into becoming the largest killing center of the second World War he would State I commanded Auschwitz until the 1st of December 1943 an estimate that at least two and a half million victims were executed and exterminated there by gassing and burning and at least another half million succumbed to starvation and disease making a total of about 3 million dead this figure represents about 70 to 80 percent of all persons sent to Auschwitz as Prisoners the remainder having been selected and used for slave labor in the concentration camp Industries including among the executed and banned were approximately 20 000 Russian prisons of War who were delivered to Auschwitz in vermic transports operated by regular Vermont officers and Men the remainder of the total number of victims included about 100 000 German Jews and great numbers of citizens mostly Jewish from the Netherlands France Belgium Poland Hungary Czechoslovakia Greece or other countries we executed around four hundred thousand Hungarian Jews alone at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 Hearst would also be responsible for individual evil of the guards who worked at the camp was in the end of the second world war he was hiding out under the name France Lang was posing as a gardener in gothruple his family managed to fall into the hands of the allies and Hedwig his wife was interrogated and after some time she gave over the pivotal information about the whereabouts of her husband he was approached by Hans Alexander and a group of British soldiers who ordered the gardener to take off his wedding ring when Harris refused he was threatened engraved inside of the Ring was his name along with his wife's inscribed and then after this the soldiers began to beat hers with ax handles many of the men who were Jews wanted to get their own back but they were then ordered away and hers would be left to rot in custody before plans were drawn up as to what to do with him he was state of his time at the hands of the British during the first interrogation they beat me to obtain evidence I do not know what was in the transcript or what I said even though I signed it because they gave me liquor and beat me with a whip it was too much for me to Bear the whip was my own by chance it found its way into my wife's luggage my horse had hardly ever been touched by it much less prisoners somehow one of the interrogators probably thought I'd used it to constantly whip the prisoners after a few days I was taken to Minden on the Visa river which was the main interrogation Center in the British Zone then they treated me even more roughly especially the first British prosecutor who was a major the conditions in the jail reflected the attitudes of the first prosecutor compared to where I'd been before imprisonment with the international Military Tribunal was like staying in a health spa perhaps would then be brought to trial between the 11th and 29th of March 1947 and during his trial many witnesses came forward about the actions and incidents that occurred inside of Auschwitz it was clear what would happen to hearse and that he would be sentenced to death however his death sentence was one which was rather unique was a very different one at the end of the second world war many war criminals who were condemned were executed inside of Allied prisons such as Landsberg prison or Hamlin prison the Landsberg those who were sentenced to death inside of the American courts would be taken into the courtyard where they would be accompanied by a priest and also military policeman they were then led up the stairs of The Gallows would be handed over to the Executioner in Hamlin there were simultaneous Gallows would be operated by British executioner Albert's peerpoint but these executions would not be performed in public they would go ahead inside execution chambers within the prisons and there would be very few Witnesses who saw the proceedings before his execution Rudolph Hearst would acknowledge his crime some would say my conscience compels me to make the following declaration in the Solitude of my prison cell I've come to Bitter recognition that I have sinned Gravely Against Humanity is coming down some ash face I was responsible for carrying out part of the cruel plans of the Third Reich for human destruction inside doing how I've inflicted terrible wounds on Humanity I caused unspeakable suffering for the Polish people in particular I'm to pay for this with my life may the Lord God forgive one day what I've done I asked the Polish people for forgiveness in Polish prisons I experienced for the first time what humankindness is despite all that has happened I've experienced Humane treatment which I could never have expected which was deeply shamed me May the facts which are now coming out about the horrific crimes against humanity May the repetition of such cruel acts impossible for all time Hearst would also return to the Catholic Church beforehand but Rudolph Hearst the commandant of Auschwitz would be executed inside of his own concentration camp the owner of a person who was condemned in this way and who was a Nazi was Carl Otto [ __ ] the former commandant of book involved who was executed by his own former colleagues as he being found guilty of stealing and embezzling money from the Nazis and Hitler but has his death sentence originally wasn't planned to take place inside of the camp of Auschwitz as he would have been executed inside of a Polish prison such as montelukich prison where there were just hooks in the ceilings of the execution Chambers with nooses attached to them but what would happen was incredible as many former prisoners of Auschwitz and those who had been imprisoned within the camp would Lobby the Polish courts and the judges they wanted the former commandant to be executed inside his own camp and the judges listened to the demands and they were then organized execution of Rudolf Harris to take place within the barbed wire fences of Auschwitz they would order The Gallows would be created inside of the camp and this would be a special execution structure where hers would be condemned upon and only one execution would ever take place on it today this Gallery is marked by a sign that says this is where the campus was located prisoners suspected of involvement in the campus underground resistance movements or preparing to escape were interrogated hair many prisoners died as a result of being beaten or tortured the first commandant of Auschwitz SS everstanbaum Fiora Rudolph Hearst who was tried and sentenced to death after the war by the Polish Supreme National tribunal was hanged here on the 16th of April 1947. Harris was brought to his former camp on the 16th of April 1947 and he was led into his former office where he had a cup of coffee following this he was led towards a Gallow structure where his legs and arms were secured then an executioner who was hooded led him up to the stairs of the scaffold he then helped herself a step and then after this secured The Noose around the neck before the trapdoor was released and hearse crashed through the death sentence of Rudolph Hearst was shocking because of the fact he was executed inside of the camp that he oversaw for a long time there was a place where over one million people were killed and hers was the final person to be executed at the sides around 100 Witnesses made a performer prisoners and members of the Polish government saw him hang on The Gallows but he was one of only two commandants of concentration camps who would meet their maker and who were condemned within their own camp thanks for watching to support our Channel please make sure to subscribe once again thank you so much for watching

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Length: 8min 43sec (523 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 17 2023