Under occupation efforts were made to turn the town into a model Nazi settlement with plans for wide green spaces and modern estates. Aside from normal German settlers the town saw 7,000 SS serve here and they enjoyed a good community life complete with coffee house, swimming pool, kindergarten and a profusion of cultural events; at one stage the Dresden State Theatre performed here. The SS pub was housed in a building across from Oświęcim train station, and its top floor was turned into a flat to serve Himmler during his visits. After the war the hunt was on to find the people who perpetrated the Holocaust. Camp Commandant Rudolf Hoss was captured in 1946, while posing as a farm hand. Sentenced to death he was hanged next to the gas chamber of Auschwitz I on April 16, 1947. Others who faced the hangman’s noose included the head of the women’s camp, Maria Mandel, as well as her 22 year old sidekick Irma Grese, aka the Beautiful Beast. Adolf Eichmann was the mastermind behind mass Jewish deportations in the Eastern territories. Having fled to Argentina after the war he was kidnapped by Mossad agents, before facing the trial of the century in Israel in which he was sentenced to hang. Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, served as the camp doctor in Birkenau and supervised selections for the gas chambers as well as brutal medical experiments on children. He evaded justice and died in a swimming accident in Brazil in the seventies.