This eBook reproduces the affidavit of Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of the Auschwitz extermination facility from May 4, 1940, to November, 1943, and again from May 8, 1944, to January 18, 1945. The affidavit was sworn by Hoess on April 5, 1946, while in captivity at Nuremberg. Hoess was sentenced to