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Quiz about Rudolf Hoess  Unparalleled Evil
Quiz about Rudolf Hoess  Unparalleled Evil

Rudolf Hoess - Unparalleled Evil Quiz


This is quiz number 4 of 5 in the series of Nazis responsible for one of the worst atrocities in history. (Not to be confused with deputy leader of the Nazi party - Rudolf Hess).

A multiple-choice quiz by jonnowales. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
jonnowales
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
270,054
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
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1089
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Top 5% quiz!
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Question 1 of 10
1. Rudolf Hoess is one of history's great enigmas. On one hand he was a mass murderer, on the other a hugely compassionate father and husband. He seemed to view his family life and his work life as mutually exclusive - never to be mixed. What position did he hold between the years, 1940 and 1943? SS-Kommandant at ________. Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Rudolf Hoess was born in 1900. Whereabouts in Germany was he born and brought up? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In 1924, Rudolf Hoess was sentenced to a decade imprisonment in Brandenburg Penitentiary. This was for the murder of which alleged traitor to the nationalist cause? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. After being released early from his term of incarceration, Hoess joined a society in 1929 where he would meet Heinrich Himmler. Which society was this? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Rudolf Hoess received promotion after promotion. After a short while at the SS (Schutzstaffel) he was assigned a role within the SS-Totenkopfverbände. What is this known as in English? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Rudolf Hoess was the mind behind the introduction of what would turn out to be the main method of mass murder during the 'Final Solution'. What method was it? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Towards the end of 1943, Hoess was promoted to the position of chief inspector of all concentration camps in Europe. He was given gleaming reports by the SS and was well known for his "good" work and efficiency. Later, when the Third Reich was in immediate danger of capitulation, he fled. What did he change his name to? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Hoess stated in his post-war Nuremberg testimony that millions of Jews perished in the concentration camp where he was SS-Kommandant. He also stated that 400,000 of the Jews were from which of the following eastern European countries? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. In 1946-47, Hoess was incarcerated in prison. Whilst there, what did he spend most of his time doing? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Hoess was sentenced to death by hanging. Where was the execution to be carried out? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Rudolf Hoess is one of history's great enigmas. On one hand he was a mass murderer, on the other a hugely compassionate father and husband. He seemed to view his family life and his work life as mutually exclusive - never to be mixed. What position did he hold between the years, 1940 and 1943? SS-Kommandant at ________.

Answer: Auschwitz

Rudolf Hoess grew up in a Catholic family. He had a very strict, authoritarian father who gave him the foundations of compliance at all costs. Between 1940 and 1943 he ran the death camp, Auschwitz. He idolised his family, a wife and five children. This was despite the fact that he was the orchestrator of mass murder in the camp's crematoria, whose chimneys could be seen from where he and his family lived.
2. Rudolf Hoess was born in 1900. Whereabouts in Germany was he born and brought up?

Answer: Baden-Baden

His father had wanted him to become a priest, however, he decided to volunteer joining the German army. He rose through the ranks as he battled in countries such as Palestine and Turkey during World War I. Baden-Baden is situated in southwest Germany.
3. In 1924, Rudolf Hoess was sentenced to a decade imprisonment in Brandenburg Penitentiary. This was for the murder of which alleged traitor to the nationalist cause?

Answer: Walter Kadow

Walter Kadow was an elementary school teacher who purportedly betrayed Leo Schlageter to the French during the occupation of the Ruhr. Rudolf Hoess and a colleague-to-be, Martin Bormann, brutally murdered Kadow and they both received very lenient prison sentences. Schlageter's death resulted in his becoming - briefly anyway - a German nationalist hero.
4. After being released early from his term of incarceration, Hoess joined a society in 1929 where he would meet Heinrich Himmler. Which society was this?

Answer: Artaman Society

Hoess was released from prison in 1928 as part of a national amnesty. He then joined the Artaman society where he met a future collaborator of mass murder, Heinrich Himmler.

The German for the Artaman society is 'Artamanen-Gesellschaft'.
5. Rudolf Hoess received promotion after promotion. After a short while at the SS (Schutzstaffel) he was assigned a role within the SS-Totenkopfverbände. What is this known as in English?

Answer: Death's Head Units

The Death's Head Units were a division within the Schutzstaffel (SS) who were in control of the concentration and death camps situated across Europe. It was members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände who carried out the orders from high Nazi command. Members of this unit gassed, tortured and burnt millions of Jews, homosexuals and gypsies during the holocaust.
6. Rudolf Hoess was the mind behind the introduction of what would turn out to be the main method of mass murder during the 'Final Solution'. What method was it?

Answer: Zyklon B

During his testimonies at trials in Nuremberg and in Poland, he almost 'bragged' about how efficient the extermination process in the death camp, Auschwitz, was. He documented the improvements he had made on the methods used in other camps such as Treblinka.

He stunned people at the trial in Nuremberg with how calmly he stated,"Another improvement we made over Treblinka was that we built our gas chambers to accommodate 2,000 people at one time, whereas at Treblinka their 10 gas chambers only accommodated 200 people each."

Hoess believed that Carbon monoxide wasn't killing the 'undesirables' quick enough and as a result implemented the use of the rapid killer, Zyklon B gas.
7. Towards the end of 1943, Hoess was promoted to the position of chief inspector of all concentration camps in Europe. He was given gleaming reports by the SS and was well known for his "good" work and efficiency. Later, when the Third Reich was in immediate danger of capitulation, he fled. What did he change his name to?

Answer: Franz Lang

When the Red Army were approaching, Hoess fled from his job and renamed himself Franz Lang. Early 1946, Rudolf Hoess was captured by allied forces and after appearing as a witness at Nuremberg he was sent to Poland to stand trial for his crimes.
8. Hoess stated in his post-war Nuremberg testimony that millions of Jews perished in the concentration camp where he was SS-Kommandant. He also stated that 400,000 of the Jews were from which of the following eastern European countries?

Answer: Hungary

"We executed about 400,000 Hungarian Jews alone at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944." - It seems amazing how a man who was such a caring husband and loving father could speak so coldly about the millions of people that he sent to death. He was a colleague of Adolf Eichmann who was one of the many Nazi war criminals who escaped to South America via the country of Italy. In the beginning, Hoess was nervous about sending many people to their deaths, especially children.

However, Eichmann told Hoess that it was the children that were in most need of extermination, as, they could spawn a whole new generation of the "undesirable" Jewish race.
9. In 1946-47, Hoess was incarcerated in prison. Whilst there, what did he spend most of his time doing?

Answer: Writing his memoirs

The memoirs of Hoess are controversial for many reasons. One of the main factors as to whether or not the literature is accurate and reliable is the circumstances in which it was written. Many holocaust deniers believe that he was beaten and tortured into writing and signing the memoirs.

Constantine Fitzgibbon, a well known translator and biographer, has made this book accessible to the English speaking world.
10. Hoess was sentenced to death by hanging. Where was the execution to be carried out?

Answer: In a concentration camp

When he stood trial in Poland, Hoess was sentenced to death by hanging at the place in which he caused mass fear and the place in which millions died. The infamous tyranny of Auschwitz was the backdrop of the execution of a technocratic mass murderer - unparalleled in evil.

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Source: Author jonnowales

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