World War Two – Germany – The SS – Nuremburg

German Nazi commandant to be tried by Poles. Rudolf Hoess, self-confessed slayer of two and a half million jews as commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp, is pictured at Fuerth Airport near Nuremberg. He will be tried at Warsaw along with Dr. Kurt von Burgsdorff, former governor of Kracow, and other German Nazis for crimes against humanity. They had been held at Nuremberg as witnesses at the International War Crimes Tribunal. AP-Photo shows: Rudolf Hoess handcuffed at Fuerth airport before boarding plane for Warsaw.With him, left to righ, are: - S/Sgt. Edge McGehee of Atlanta, Ga., Guard; Rudolf Hoess; Capt. S.H. Binder of Woodbine, Iowa, Operations Officer of I.M.T. Security; and Capt. Grodecki, Polish Army Representative.