“I commanded Auschwitz and estimate, at least 2.5 million...

â€Å"I commanded Auschwitz and estimate, at least 2.5 million victims were executed and exterminated by gassing and burning, and another half a million succumbed to starvation and disease making a total dead of about 3 million† (Source 1) calmly explained Rudolf Hoss, an Auschwitz Nazi commander. Hoss was the leader of the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1941 to 1943. He ordered to kill millions of people and inflicted pain and suffering upon the Jews. He did whatever it took to protect his leader, Adolf Hitler. For Hoss, mass murder was a daily routine. Rudolf Hoss was an inhumane Auschwitz Nazi commander who ordered to massacre thousands of innocent Jewish people using fatal punishment and violent killing methods. Rudolf Hà ¶ss became the†¦show more content†¦Hà ¶ss stood there watching and breathing into a gas mask, while everyone else was suffering and gasping for air. â€Å"A short, almost smothered cry and it was all over† (Source 3) said Hà ¶ss after seeing the effects of Zyklon B. Hà ¶ss also allowed Nazi doctors to perform horrific experiments on the prisoners at his camp. Hoss allowed doctors to experiment with sterilization, experiments on twins and handicaps, clinical trials of the tolerance and efficacy of the new medications and drugs, and many more disturbing experiments. Auschwitz camp doctors, so called â€Å"’German physicians and scientists’, performed vile and lethal medical experiments on concentration camps inmates† (Source 2). The doctors tortured a lot of children. They mostly tortured Jewish children and Gypsy children. Hoss used to kill kids first so they would not be able to grow up and have more Jewish kids. Patients were held in pressure chambers, tested with dangerous drugs, they were sterilized, and some froze to death during experiments. Children were treated horribly. Even though Hà ¶ss did not perform any of these experiments himself, he was responsible for ordering the deaths of those prisoners at his camp in Auschwitz. Hà ¶ss enjoyed killing Jews. He gassed, shot, starved, and burned Jews alive. Auschwitz became the camp where the most European Jews were killed. After a gassing in Auschwitz as an experiment in September 1941 with 850 prisoners, mass murder became a ‘daily routine’ (Source 1).