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Chilling photo album reveals how SS officer who helped run Auschwitz wanted to remember the concentration camp

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Photos, now the subject of a play called 'Here There Are Blueberries,' show SS officers enjoying themselves at Auschwitz at a time when hundreds of thousands of Jews were being massacred.

The picture shows a group of women enjoying blueberries next to a man, smiling. Another man poses at the back, playing an accordion. The image is one of 116 photos in an album that belonged to an SS officer who helped run the day-to-day operations of Auschwitz.

Pictures revealed something else museum officials hadn't seen before; the SS built a vacation resort, called Solahütte, at Auschwitz. A series of photos show a gathering of top SS officers there in July 1944. Erbelding believes it was a party where Nazis were congratulating themselves for successfully murdering more than 350,000 Hungarian Jews in just 55 days.

 

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