Rudolf Mildner
Rudolf Mildner was an Austrian-German SS-Standartenführer. He served as the chief of the Gestapo at Katowice and was the head of the political department at Auschwitz concentration camp, conducting "third degree" methods of interrogation from March 1941 until September 1943. As such, he frequently sent prisoners to Auschwitz for incarceration or execution.
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- Born in
- Janov
- Educated at
- University of Innsbruck
- Awards
- 🏆 War Merit Cross
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1902
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