Picture album found of Auschwitz Nazis (very long Twitter thread)

[steve2470]

Link to tweet

click here for easier reading: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1184965620804345856.html

[matt819]

1. Wow

Just wow.

Take your time reading the thread and looking at the photos. These are men who committed atrocities beyond imagination. Well, at least at the time. Today, it's all too imaginable.

[Disaffected]

4. Maybe but,

Roudolf Hoss (adjutant to the Kommandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau:

"May the general public simply go on seeing me as a bloodthirsty beast, the cruel sadist, the murderer of millions, because the broad masses cannot conceive the Kommandant of Auschwitz in any other way. They would never able to understand that he also had a heart and that he was not evil."

What happened then and what has recently transpired in Syria are too similar for comfort.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Kick

[abqtommy]

3. What concerns me more is the pictures of the Nazis we see currently in the national and

international news.

[Srkdqltr]

5. Amazing.

[qazplm135]

6. the banality of evil

on display.

[UpInArms]

7. The article in The New Yorker is definitely worth reading, also

This link was mentioned in the thread reader

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/03/17/picturing-auschwitz

Hoecker was born in Engerhausen, Germany, in December, 1911, the youngest child of six. His father, a bricklayer, died in the First World War, leaving his family impoverished. Hoecker worked at a bank, then joined the S.S. in 1933, and got married five years later. (He and his wife eventually had a daughter and a son.) At the beginning of the war, he was drafted into the S.S. Fighting Corps, and in 1940 he was sent to work at Neuengamme concentration camp, near Hamburg. In 1942, he was transferred to Majdanek, where he was adjutant during the Harvest Festival of November, 1943, when all the Jews from three camps, including Majdanek, were assembled and shot, in order to prevent uprisings. Forty-two thousand prisoners were killed in two days.

[progressoid]

8. "Mengele was pictured 8 times in the album."

[Skittles]

9. deplorables

[appalachiablue]

10. The 'Hocker Album' of Auschwitz-Birkenau staff & officials was

given to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by a US Army intelligence officer who discovered it in Germany in 1945 and kept it over 60 years. Strange he didn't provide this documentation to US authorities immediately given its importance and historic value.

The Höcker Album (or Hoecker Album) is a collection of photographs believed to have been collected by Karl-Friedrich Höcker, an officer for the SS during the Nazi regime in Germany. It contains over one hundred images of the lives and living conditions of the officers and administrators who ran the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex. The album is unique, and an indispensable document of the Holocaust; it is now in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C.

Discovery: According to the museum, the photograph album was found by an unidentified American counterintelligence officer who was billeted in Frankfurt after Germany's surrender in 1945. This officer discovered the photo album in an apartment there, and when he returned to the United States, he took the album with him.[1]

In January 2007, the American officer donated the album to the USHMM, with the request that his identity not be disclosed. The captions of the photographs, and the people featured in the images, quickly confirmed that it depicts life in and around the Auschwitz camps. The very first photograph is a double portrait of Richard Baer, Auschwitz camp commandant between 1944 and 1945, and Baer's adjutant, Karl Höcker.[2]

More, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6cker_Album

[Demonaut]

11. just men, men almost normal but capable of such evil..be warned, they don't look like monsters, then

or now