Auschwitz’s Commandant Hid for 10 Months — How Did a Jewish Refugee Find Him?

In March 1946, the man who ran Auschwitz was milking cows on a farm near the Danish border. His name, according to his papers, was Franz Lang. The British had already held him once and let him go. The man who finally caught him was Hanns Alexander, a 28-year-old Jewish refugee who had fled Berlin with his family ten years earlier. To find the commandant, he did not need a manhunt across Europe. He needed one person to break: Höss’s wife, Hedwig. This is the story of a pencil, a sheet of paper, a wedding ring engraved with two names, and a secret Alexander kept from his own family for sixty years. ⚠️ This video covers the Holocaust and contains descriptions of mass murder and violence. It is made for educational and historical purposes only. The channel does not support or glorify Nazism or any form of violence. Narration is produced with an AI voice. Research, script editing and video editing are done by the channel. 📚 SOURCES Thomas Harding, Hanns and Rudolf (2013) Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz (autobiography) Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947) IMT Nuremberg, Vol. XI: testimony of Rudolf Höss, 15 April 1946 IPN Warsaw, Trial of Rudolf Höss (1947) USHMM Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive Yad Vashem, The Auschwitz Album “The Unknown Nazi Hunter,” Newsweek, 2013 Rise of the Nazis: The Manhunt, BBC Two, 2022 #Holocaust #Auschwitz #NaziHunter #History #WWII