In January 2007, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. received a donation of a photography album. The album is thought to have belonged to SS-Obersturmfuhrer Karl Hocker. Hocker was the adjutant to Auschwitz commandant, SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Richard Baer. The album is full of smiling pictures of SS officers. I encourage everyone to look at these photos, and think about who these people were. The people in these pictures are largely responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths. What were they smiling about? Were they as Christopher Browning puts it, "ordinary men"?
To check out the album go to : http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/auschwitz/
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