Rudolf Höss was the first of three commandants of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and commanded the camp for three and one half years. According to the official story, he introduced the idea of using Zyklon B gassing as method to accomplish the supposed Nazi plan to "exterminate every Jew in Europe", and was the architect of the "the most heinous killing machine in world history".
Höss "confessed" that Himler had ordered him to utilize Auschwitz as a site to enact Hitler's "final solution" to mass murder all of Europe's Jews. Since there is no German documentation proving any policy to exterminate Jews (nor any physical evidence, including autopsies or corpses), the alleged "confession" of Höss is key to "proving" such a policy actually existed.
The prosecutors at Nuremberg accused and convicted the Germans of murdering some "4 million" people at Auschwitz -- based largely upon the supposed "confessions" (obtained via torture) of German officers, such as the signed "confession" by Rudolf Höss to having supervised the murder of "2.5 million" Jews.
Then, around 1990 the Polish Government reduced the claim of the number killed at Auschwitz from 4 million to around 1 million.
Therefore, Höss' "confession" was a lie.
The note reads:
"I declare herewith under oath that in the years 1941 to 1943, during my tenure in office as commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 2 million Jews were put to death by gassing and a ½ million by other means."
- May 14, 1946 [signed] Rudolf Höss
An image of this handwritten "confession" was published in a newsletter of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Click on image to enlarge. (Source: historiography-project)
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum presented the copy of Höss' note with these words:
"Rudolf Höss scribbled this frank acknowledgment of the mass murder in Auschwitz on a piece of notepaper during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal...Höss penciled this statement in the presence of Joseph Maier, chief of the Analysis Section within the Interrogation Division under the U.S. Counsel, who was gathering evidence from Nazi war criminals and witnesses in preparation for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials. At the bottom of the document Prof. Maier hand wrote: "The above was written and signed before me at Nuremberg, Germany on May 14, 1946 [signed] Joseph Maier, Chief, Analysis Section, Interrogation Division, Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel".
Note: Joseph Maier was Jewish and an active member of the so-called “Frankfurt School". As noted under his signature, he was Chief of the "Analysis Section Interrogations Division, Office of U. S. Chief of Counsel”, which was overwhelmingly jewish. The entire prosecution of German "war criminals", including at Nuremberg, was completely controlled by Jews within the U.S. and British military and governments.
Höss appeared at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg on 15 April 1946. In his affidavit made at Nuremberg on 5 April 1946 Höss stated:
I commanded Auschwitz until 1 December 1943, and estimate that at least 2,500,000 victims were executed and exterminated there by gassing and burning, and at least another half million succumbed to starvation and disease, making a total dead of about 3,000,000. This figure represents about 70% or 80% of all persons sent to Auschwitz as prisoners, the remainder having been selected and used for slave labor in the concentration camp industries. (Source)
HERE is video of Höss testifying at the Nuremberg trial.
As explained in his memoirs, Höss claims he was beaten by the British military interrogators and forced to sign a document that he did not read. When he was taken to Nuremberg to appear at the International Military Tribunal, Höss says that he was treated "unpleasantly" by interrogators and that "they were all Jews". (source)
In 1983 a book was published ("Legions of Death" by Rupert Butler) that confirmed that Höss was tortured by the British (members of the "Jewish brigade" operating in the British army). Höss was tortured for three days by Jewish interrogators, lead by Sergeant Bernard Clarke. Höss was severely beaten and deprived of sleep for three days, after which he broke down and signed the prepared "confession" statement.
External Resources:
1. "How the British Obtained the Confessions of Rudolf Höss" by Robert Faurisson
2. Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony at Nuremburg, 1946
3. Nazigassings.com: "How Jews tortured innocent Germans to make Holocaust Evidence"
4. Rudolf Höss' May 14, 1946, Handwritten Confession
See also:
- The Holocaust legend is built on "confessions" obtained VIA TORTURE; Interrogators beat, tortured, and crushed the testicles of German defendants at war crimes trials
- Private letter from Thomas Dodd, former US Senator and top American Nuremberg prosecutor: 75% of staff lawyers at Nuremberg are Jewish
- At Nuremberg, "4 million" deaths "proved" at Auschwitz; In 1990 Polish government says only around "1 million" total deaths. Number of dead at Auschwitz drops by 3 million - Sacred 6 million number remains unchanged
