This Date in History: November 25

 

Colonel Andrew J. “Whiskey” Smith assumed command of the 7th Cavalry Regiment on November 25, 1866.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

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Rudolf Höss, SS-Obersturmbannführer, born November 25, 1900 in Baden-Baden, member of the post-World War I Rossbach Freikorps, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, SS officer at Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, winner of the War Service Cross 1st Class, convicted in Poland of crimes against humanity, author Rudolf Höss: Commandant of Auschwitz, executed by hanging April 16, 1947 at Auschwitz, on himself: “My heart was with the Führer and our ideology.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)