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exposition, interesting place, historic landmark
The first commendant of Auschwitz, SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss, who was tried and sentenced to death after the war by the Polish Supreme National Tribunal, was hanged here on 16 April 1947.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Höss
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°1'40"N 19°12'19"E
- Former Auschwitz I Concentration Camp 0.4 km
- Judenrampe - Prisoner Unloading Area (Until Early 1944) 1.5 km
- Men's Quarantine Unit (B lla) 2.3 km
- Jewish Block (B IIb) 2.4 km
- Transit Unit (B IIc) 2.5 km
- Male Block (B IId) 2.6 km
- Gypsy Block (B IIe) 2.7 km
- Former Auschwitz II Birkenau Extermination Camp 3.4 km
- Dwory S.A. Chemical Works (former I.G. Farben Buna Werke) 3.8 km
- Lager IV "Auschwitz III" / "Monowitz-Dorfrand" / "Buna" WWII German Nazi Labor Camp 5.8 km
- Former Auschwitz I Concentration Camp 0.1 km
- Centrum obsługi odwiedzających państwowe muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau 0.2 km
- Roll Call 0.2 km
- ul. Orłowskiego, 80-90 0.7 km
- ul. Orłowskiego, 20-34 0.7 km
- ul. Orłowskiego, 100-118 0.7 km
- Most Jagielloński 0.8 km
- ul. Orłowskiego, 46-64 0.8 km
- Oswiecim Central Station 1.1 km
- Kaufland hypermarket 1.5 km