They had already been provided with false papers and positions in various arms of the Wehrmacht; the Concentration Camp Inspectorate seems to have ‘submerged’ en masse in the Navy. Höss’s chief, Glücks, went to a naval hospital post; Höss became Bosun’s Mate Franz Lang in the Navy Signal School on the island of Sylt. Like the others he carried a phial of cyanide with him.
