Chilling then-and-now photos show where Auschwitz monsters relaxed – The First News
Party for Rudolf Höss. Left to right: Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, Josef Kramer, Rudolf Höss and Anton Thumann. Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor known for his horrific experiments on prisoners, was never brought to justice, while Baer escaped arrest until 1960. The other three were executed. This was taken at a July 1944 during a party for Höss. Based on the officers visiting Solahutte, we surmise that the photographs were taken to honor Rudolf Hoess who completed his tenure as garrison senior on July 29th.
Has the gallows, on which Rudolf Hoess was hanged at Auschwitz, been moved? | Scrapbookpages Blog (wordpress.com) "Just a short distance from Auschwitz, where the defining crime of the 20th century was being carried out, in a picturesque setting on a hill by the bend of a river was a resort for the camp’s SS guards.
"This rustic oasis of peace and leisure was where the perpetrators of the Holocaust could relax, sing and feast before getting back to the demanding task of murdering around one million Jews as well as Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and political prisoners.
"After the war it was used as a hotel for workers from the chemical plant in Oświęcim. Not much remains of the retreat and nature is slowly reclaiming the site, which will soon be lost forever.
"This was why British Holocaust researcher and founder of the Auschwitz Study Group Michael Challoner decided to document what still remains and he has created a fascinating series of before-and-after photographs that serve as a poignant reminder of how the SS perpetrators of the Holocaust relaxed in their free time.
"The original images from the 1940s that Michael used come from a collection of photographs known as the Hoeker Album, which was revealed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 after laying for decades among the documents of an American intelligence officer who came across the album in Frankfurt after the war." . . .
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