The photographs depict SS officers in Auschwitz in the summer and fall of 1944 and provide us with a new understanding of their lives and activities in the camp. Even in the final months of the war, after Soviet troops had liberated concentration camps and labor camps to the east, SS officers stationed at Auschwitz enjoyed social functions and formal ceremonies.
The album shows Auschwitz at a pivotal time””the period during which the gas chambers were operating at maximum efficiency””as the Hungarian Jews arrived and during the last months before the evacuation of the camp.
A disturbing, yet fascinating glimpse via United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.