NARRATOR: After a trial lasting three weeks, Hoss was sentenced to death. To be hanged on a specially constructed gallows on the site of his crimes at Auschwitz. TRANSLATOR: During the execution ...

As commandant from 1940 to 1944, Hoss orchestrated the industrial-scale slaughter at the camp, where gas was used to murder Jews. He was tried by a Polish court and was executed by hanging at the ...