Historical pictures and documents
SS men at the SS-Unterkunftsgebäude
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By courtesy of Mirosław Ganobis
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Picture from Karl Hoecker album
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Foreground (from the left): Richard Baer, the third and the last commandant of KL Auschwitz; Dr Josef Mengele, one of the camp doctors; Rudolf Hoess, the founder and the first commandant of KL Auschwitz. Międzybrodzie Bialskie, SS resort.
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Picture from Karl Hoecker album
Author: SS photo
Opening of SS hospital. September 1944. (Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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Picture from Karl Hoecker album
Author: SS photo
The owner of the album, Karl Hoecker with girls from SS auxiliaries units. Międzybrodzie Bialskie, SS resort, 1944. (Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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Maria Mandel
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Maria Mandel, SS female guard in Birkenau from October 1942 to November 1944. In 1947 tried in Poland and sentenced to death.
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Eduard Wirths
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SS doctor, Dr Eduard Wirths, served in KL Auschwitz from September 1 1942 to the evacuation. In September 1945 he commited suicide.
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Gerhard Palitzsch
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Gerhard Palitzsch, the first report NCO in KL Auschwitz I. He executed many prisoners at the "Wall of Death".
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Richard Baer
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Richard Baer, the third commandant of KL Auschwitz—from May 1944 to the evacuation
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Johann Paul Kremer
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Dr. Johann Paul Kremer, one of the SS doctors. In KL Auschwitz from August 30 to November 18, 1942. He performed selections of deported people. In 1947 sentenced in Poland to life inmprisonment. In 1958 released and transfered to West Germany.
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SS guards
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SS guards
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Otto Moll
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SS-Hauptscharführer Otto Moll, the chief of crematories. After the war sentenced to death in the trial of Dachau SS staff.
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Artur Liebehenschel
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SS-Obersturmbannführer Artur Liebehenschel, the second commandant of KL Auschwitz from November 1943 to May 1944. After the war sentenced to death.
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Maximilian Grabner
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SS-Untersturmführer Maximilian Grabner, the head of Department II (camp Gestapo). After the war sentenced to death.
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SS staff hospital in Auschwitz
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SS staff hospital in Auschwitz
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Building of SS hospital
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Building of SS hospital
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Painting from SS kitchen
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A fragment of a painting from a wall inside the SS kitchen.
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In summer of 1944 SS staff counted 4 500 SS-men
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In summer of 1944 SS staff counted 4 500 SS-men. In the picture you can see a column of SS soldiers from the camp staff marching at the warehouse barracks, so-called Bauhof in Auschwitz I.
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Auschwitz – a room for SS staff
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Auschwitz – a room for SS-men where they could rest after a hard day of work in the camp. Picture taken during the war.
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One of camp offices
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One of camp offices
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