HS

HS or Hs can stand for:

Science and education

  • Hassium, the chemical element with symbol Hs
  • Homo sapiens, the scientific name for the human species
  • Bisulfide, HS, a chemical compound derived from H2S
  • Mercapto radical, HS, a radical molecule
  • Hun stuff (a World War I name for mustard gas)
  • Hereditary spherocytosis, a genetic disorder marked by hemolytic anemia
  • Hidradenitis suppurativa, a skin condition affecting apocrine sweat glands and hair follicles
  • The Higman–Sims group in mathematics
  • High school (secondary education)
  • Higher Secondary Examination in West Bengal
  • Hillcrest Preparatory School, an independent co-educational school in Mutare, Zimbabwe
  • Homeschool, among homeschoolers usually
  • High seas, international waters outside a coastal states EEZ
  • Entertainment

  • Heavenly Sword, a PlayStation 3 game
  • Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, game developed by Blizzard Entertainment
  • Headshot; a video game term
  • Hello Saferide, a Swedish band fronted by singer/songwriter Annika Norlin
  • High score, in relation to video games
  • Rudolf Höss

    Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß or Hoess; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was SS-Obersturmbannführer and the longest serving commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II. He tested and carried into effect various methods to accelerate Hitler's plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Nazi-occupied Europe, known as the Final Solution. Höss introduced pesticide Zyklon B containing hydrogen cyanide to the killing process, thereby allowing soldiers at Auschwitz to murder 2,000 people every hour. He created the largest installation for the continuous annihilation of human beings ever known.

    Höss joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and the SS in 1934. From 4 May 1940 to November 1943, and again from 8 May 1944 to 18 January 1945 he was in charge of Auschwitz where more than a million people were killed before the defeat of Germany. He was hanged in 1947 following a trial in Warsaw.

    Life

    Höss was born in Baden-Baden into a strict Catholic family. He lived with his mother Lina (née Speck) and father Franz Xaver Höss. Höss was the eldest of three children and the only son. He was baptised Rudolf Franz (or possibly Francis) Ferdinand on 11 December 1901. He was a lonely child with no playmates his own age until he entered elementary school; all of his companionship came from adults. He claimed in his autobiography that he was briefly abducted by Gypsies in his youth. His father, a former army officer who served in German East Africa, ran a tea and coffee business; he brought his son up on strict religious principles and with military discipline, having decided that he would enter the priesthood. Höss grew up with an almost fanatical belief in the central role of duty in a moral life. During his early years, there was a constant emphasis on sin, guilt, and the need to do penance.

    H&S

    H&S can refer to:

  • Health and safety, a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting people's safety, health and welfare.
  • Head & Shoulders, a brand of shampoo
  • Head and shoulders (chart pattern), a graphing pattern commonly found in financial markets
  • Hack and slash, a role-playing game play style
  • Headquarters and Service Company or Headquarters and Service Battalion in a U.S. Marine Corps regiment
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