Rudolf Hoess: Rudolf Hoess was the leader of the camp and in the highest command. Him and Hitler were basically best friends Hitler's right hand man. Rudolf was one of the longest serving commandment soldiers in Auschwitz. He tested various methods to accelerate Hitler's “Final Solution” or his plan to exterminate all the Jewish race. He introduced pesticide which vastly sped up the process killing up to 2,000 Jews an hour. Rudolf was imprisoned in Poland and while he was in prison he wrote a book called Commandment of Auschwitz that actually got published. Rudolf was born into a strict catholic family, he was the oldest and lived with 3 other siblings, but he was the only boy out of them. Rudolf lived with …show more content…
But he denies he’s done anything, he says that he hasn’t committed any crime. Oskar was 21 when he was posted at auschwitz. He was “the ramp” which is where the Jews arrived and he said immediately they separated the men from the women and children and they gassed the ones not fit enough to work. About 80-90% of the first arrivals were gassed and the rest were sent straight to work. If a baby was loaded onto a lorry if they cried they chucked (threw) it against the lorry or kill them Oskar couldn't understand why a soldier would do that. If any Jew or degenerate wrote a book or letter the soldiers would immediately burn it so imagine all the information we could have if they didn't burn them. His first experience was Auschwitz was like any other concentration camp but by the end he was truly