How the British Obtained the [false] Confessions of Auschwitz Commandant Höss

How the British Obtained the Confessions of Auschwitz Commandant Höss

Robert Faurisson

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v07/v07p389_Faurisson.html

Rudolf Höss was the first of three successive commandants of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He is often called "the Commandant of Auschwitz," and the general public knows of him from a book published under the title Commandant in Auschwitz. He appeared before the [Nuremberg] International Military Tribunal as a witness on April 15, 1946, where his deposition caused a sensation. ... He estimated that at Auschwitz 3,000,000 people had been exterminated, 2,500,000 of them by means of gas chambers. His confessions were false. They had been extorted from Höss by torture ...