Search the World News Network. Advanced Search. Argentina. Bolivia. Brazil. Chile. Uruguay. Peru. Site Map. Archive. The album contained 116 pictures taken between May and December 1944 chronicling the life of SS officers and other officials at the Auschwitz Karl Hoecker, adjutant to the commander of Auschwitz. REBECCA ERBELDING Birkenau concentration camp. The rare images capture SS guards and Nazi officials relaxing and enjoying time off hunting, singing, trimming Christmas trees, and more . Search the World News Network. Advanced Search. Argentina. Bolivia. Brazil. Chile. Uruguay. Peru. Site Map. Archive. Birkenau concentration camp. The rare images capture SS guards and Nazi officials relaxing and enjoying time off hunting, singing, trimming Christmas trees, and more . along for SS officers at their retreat at Solahutte outside Auschwitz At first glance, the photographs seem innocuous enough. Men and women in uniform lie back in deckchairs, listen to accordion music, decorate a Christmas karl hoecker tree. Michael Kessler is a German actor, comedian and author from Wiesbaden. And this news coupled with newly released, rare photos provided by the US Holocaust Museum showing SS officers and Auschwitz camp staff living it up as the gas chambers and crematoriums were operating. The 116 images were taken by along for SS officers at their retreat at Solahutte outside Auschwitz His job was to know everything before the commandant did and to make sure things ran smoothly for his boss. The other jobs he had was he supervised a team of women known as Helfereinnen and they were elecommunications. His job was to know everything before the commandant did and to make sure things ran smoothly for his boss. The other jobs he had was he supervised a team of women known as Helfereinnen and they were elecommunications. Hoecker, who worked as a bank teller in Lubbecke, joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in 1937. He. Karl Hoecker was born in Engershausen, Germany, in December 1911, as the youngest of six children. His father, a construction worker, was killed in World War I, and his mother struggled to support the family.
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