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Photo 20 (Photo by the author) The “mythical” manuscript and/or “notorious forgery” of Rudolph Hoess' memoirs. Entitled: “Mein Psyche, Werden, Leben und Erleben” [My Psyche, Life and Experience] conserved in the PMO archives. Published in England by Pan Books under the title “Commandant of Auschwitz” . |
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| Photo 21: [PMO neg. no. 1255] SS Lieutenant-Colonel Rudoph Hoess, former commandant of Auschwitz and then head of Department D1 of the SS-WVHA Concentration Camp Inspectorate, arrested by the British on 11 February [March in the public version] 1946 in Flensburg in the north of Schleswig-Holstein under the pseudonym of Franz Lang, after his appearance before the Nuremberg Tribunal on 5th April as a witness for the defense of Kaltenbrunner. Handed over by the Americans to the Polish authorities on 25th May 1946 |
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| Photo 22: [PMO neg. no. 1251] Ex commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolph Franz Ferdinand Hoess at the opening of his trial before the Polish Supreme Court in Warsaw on 11th March 1947. |
Photo 23: [PMO neg. no. 1256] The accused, Hoess, founder of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during his trial in Warsaw, held from 11th to 29th March 1947 |
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| Photo 24: [PMO neg. no. 1257] Hoess, the technician of planned death, during the reading of the charges drawn up by Judge Jan Sehn. |
Photo 25: [PMO neg. no. 1259] Hoess, condemned to death by a sentence passed in the name of the Polish Republic on 2nd April 1947, shortly before his being hanged on 16th April 1947 behind Krematorium I in the Auschwitz main camp. |