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SS-Obersturmführer Karl Höcker, adjutant to Auschwitz commandant Richard Baer, assembled an album of about 115 photographs documenting SS personnel at Auschwitz and the Solahütte retreat near Międzybrodzie from mid-1944 to January 1945. The album opens with the inscription "Auschwitz 21.6.1944" and includes official visits, ceremonies and leisure gatherings. Among those pictured are Rudolf Höss, Josef Kramer, Franz Hössler and Josef Mengele. The eight images of Mengele are the only known photographs of him taken at Auschwitz.

The album includes a July 15, 1944, farewell gathering for Höss and a July 22 outing attended by SS-Helferinnen, including the well-known photographs of women eating blueberries. A U.S. Army counterintelligence officer found the album in Frankfurt in 1946. It was donated anonymously in 2007 and made public that September. A television report presents album photographs, interviews with an archivist and a survivor, and a separate May 1944 photograph from the Auschwitz Album showing women and children walking with bundles at Birkenau. Höcker was convicted in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial in 1965 and sentenced to seven years in prison.

[Magenta]

Wow, great vid!! I've never seen this - read a bit about the album but never seen any footage related to it! Great job Para! Thanks!

[Eris Killton]

I had never head of this album taken at the same time as the other album. I dont think that was a coincidence. That was really a great clip. That old lady from the camp when she was describing being pushed into the shower....Made me ill. I dont know why they are surprised the people working there could be happy and take photos like that though. To me that was not shocking or surprising, but interesting. I mean, what else could you do after a hard day of genocide and genocide related activities but relax outdoors and eat blueberries then pretend to be sad when they are gone and photograph it all. Just goes to show you there are two sides to every war. Im sure all those people thought they were justified at some point and even if they didnt they cant be expected not to make the best of it. Thats why I dont think it was a coincidence the two albums are from the same time and show two totally different worlds. They were only documenting reality. ;)

[Syl]

Wow, great fucking video. Not many people get to see these. They look happy and in charge B-)

[güttsfükk]

the video in the original post cuts about 21 seconds off the end of the clip, for those who want to see the end check out the link below, i'm not going to bother uploading it here though as the quality isnt that great on this clip, but i thought some might still want to see the ending of it.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HW9o2Pklh4"]YouTube- Happy Nazis - Germany[/nomedia]

[On3S1CFuK.]

Loved It!

[shooterb]

1st, they came for the Jews, and I said nothing; then, they came for the Catholics and still, I was silent; then they came for us, and there was no one left to say anything.

[güttsfükk]

Originally Posted by Incognito ↗

1st, they came for the Jews, and I said nothing; then, they came for the Catholics and still, I was silent; then they came for us, and there was no one left to say anything.

that's a nice little quote there

[lbridgeland]

Genocide at any time, past, present, or future is horrifying. Thank you Gutts!

[ChockFullOfChock]

Originally Posted by Incognito ↗

1st, they came for the Jews, and I said nothing; then, they came for the Catholics and still, I was silent; then they came for us, and there was no one left to say anything.

...or to take you away if that's the case!