Talk:Rudolf Höss

message: Am I crazy and misreading or do they describe his hanging at Auschwitz twice? Once halfway through the trial section and another right at the end.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by AugieIsHere (talk • contribs) 00:31, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Execution described twice 

message: Is it really necessary to publicize the names of Rudolf Höss's children here? This information seems irrelevant and even potentially harmful to the people concerned. Certainly Höss's children should not be made to share the guilt of their father? Even aside from this, does not the mentioning of their names violate the WP:Notability criterion? This also goes for the grandson, who seems to have publicized himself somewhat. Is he notable enough for Wikipedia? The whole story of Rudolf Höss is so terrible and dirty. Do we really need to get his descendants mixed up in it as well? Filursiax (talk) 00:28, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Höss's family 

message: I have added an image of Bormann since he is discussed in an adjacent section. They were convicted of the murder of a German schoolmaster in the 1920s, and both served in prison for their crime. 81.151.255.222 (talk) 08:56, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Martin Bormann

message: This should be 1900 not 1901. Höss himself indicates in his own testimony that he was 46 during the Nuremberg trials:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1946hoess.asp
The Encyclopaedia Britannica lists his year of birth as 1900:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-Franz-Hoss
As does the Yad Vashem Institute:
https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206418.pdf
I will not change this on the Wikipedia entry as I fear it will only be reverted back to 1901. However, I leave this information here for perusal. Dambers50 (talk) 16:56, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Re: the Fordham source: Even if he was born in 1900, he could not have been 46 years old on 5 April 1946 (the date he testified), since his birthday was in November. Somebody must have made a mistake. I think British historian Richard J. Evans is a pretty reliable source, better that Britannica or Yad Vashem.— Diannaa (talk) 22:48, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of birth 

message: *Source 1: IsraelHayom
*Source 2:  Exberliner
Would other editors please evaluate these sources to see if one is more reliable than the other, or, indeed, if either appears to be reliable? Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 13:52, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The Harding source  says 1980s as well - IsraelHayom appears to be the outlier here. – bradv 13:56, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Great! At last an unequivocally reliable source, The Washington Post.  I've changed Klaus' date of death to the 1980s, and cited the Harding article from the Post. Beyond My Ken (talk) 14:06, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Reliability of sources

message: > In 1942, Höss had sexual relations with a political prisoner at Auschwitz named Eleonore Hodys (or Nora Mattaliano-Hodys). The woman became pregnant, and was imprisoned in a standing-only arrest cell.
I'm concerned with the framing here. I would use the framing "had sexual relations" to refer to a consensual sexual relationship without a structural power imbalance. This is obviously not applicable to the relationship between the commandant of Auschwitz and a political prisoner. 103.66.132.242 (talk) 04:29, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate framing of relations with a prisoner 

message: Re the deletion of this quote because the source didnt seem reliable to editor 
"When accused of murdering three and a half million people, Höss replied, "No. Only two and one half million—the rest died from disease and starvation." There is another source that corraborates this quote albeit in a different form.
Witnesses to Nuremberg- An Oral History of American Participants at the War Crimes Trials by Bruce M. Stave (1998) s. 99 
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1119&context=dissertations_2
the quote is related by an interpreter Harry Fiss.
 Sfar13 (talk) 08:23, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Höss quote