They literally almost beat Rudolf Hoess, the Kommandant of Auschwitz, to death when they caught him.
Rudolf Hoess’ wiki bio is sickening. But we must not forget the horrors of human cruelty. The truth must be faced even if the reading is painful.
He was hanged by the Poles in 1947, but seemed to have expressed remorse & a spiritual conversion before being executed.
On the other hand, Ilsa Koch the Bitch of Buchenwald hanged herself in prison in 1967, unrepentant to the end.