36. Rudolf Hoess, History Greatest Mass Murderer
Rudolf Hoess might be history’s greatest individual mass murderer, having created and organized the biggest industrial-scale killing factory ever created: Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, where over a million people were killed. A mild-mannered and happily married Catholic, Hoess enjoyed normal family life with his five children, notwithstanding the view of the Auschwitz crematoria’s smoke stacks from his bedroom window. After the war, he was tried and convicted and hanged next to Auschwitz’s crematorium.
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