11 March 1947: The trial of Rudolf Höss began in Warsaw

11 March 1946 - British troops captured Rudolf Höss, SS-Obersturmbannführer
and commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.

Rudolf Höss (25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a Nazi German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel)