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Rudolf Höss was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 until 1943, and then again from 1944 until 1945. He was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz, including Jews, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, and others who were deemed "enemies" of the Nazi regime.

While Höss did not say that he had personally killed 4 million Jews at Auschwitz, he did admit in his testimony at the Nuremberg Trials that he was aware of the death toll at the camp, and that he was responsible for implementing the policies that led to the deaths of millions of people. In his testimony, Höss claimed that the total number of deaths at Auschwitz was around 2.5 million, including approximately 1 million Jews.

It is important to note that Höss's number is only a rough estimate, and that the exact number of victims who died at Auschwitz and other concentration camps is a subject of ongoing research and debate among historians. However, it is clear that millions of innocent people were systematically murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, and that Auschwitz was one of the most notorious sites of this genocide.