because According to several estimates the Nazi Commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoess was responsible for exterminating millions of people.By mid 1942, Rudolf Hoess started mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as 2,5 million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning
I think that the question refers to Hoess' stint in prison in 1924. It was for a rather brutal murder of a former teacher who was suspected of starting a communist group.
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Until 1940, he was General Secretary of the NAZI Party, number 2 after Hitler. After that, he made an attempt to fly to England to forge some kind of peace treaty only he knew about. Afterwards he spent the remainder of the war in prison in England. He died in a German Prison in 1997.
Rudolf Walter Heß' official title before he lft Germany was deputy Fürher, other wise known as Stellvertreter des Führers.
Landsberg Am Lech Fortress Prison.
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The reason was that the state of Bavaria was steeped in corruption and rotten to the core. Its leaders were relieved when the governor of Landsberg (prison) wrote a glowing report on Hitler and his behaviour in prison and recommended him for very early release.