Auschwitz Collection

[olrac]

This is a story in todays Age http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/19/1189881595074.html about a photo album that was donated to the US holocust memorial museum depicting life for the SS guards.

The USHMM website showing the pics. http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/auschwitz/auschwitz_album/

It amazes me that these photos would have been looked on maybe even cherished by the owner of his memories of his workmates and life as He/She knew it while so many where suffering at their hands

[Reschsmooth]

I don't wish to make light of any of this, but on the Chaser, last night, Charles Firth was interviewing Americans asking if Muslims should have special ID, should they have serial numbers tattooed on their arms, should they be incarcerated for life, etc. All very innocently asked, and, with the power of editing, all the respondents said yes. Scary, but funny (because it is scary).

[TonyH]

It amazes me that these photos would have been looked on maybe even cherished by the owner of his memories of his workmates and life as He/She knew it while so many where suffering at their hands

They are quite surreal knowing what has gone on in between "shoots".

I believe that it is quite an important historical document which should be viewed by as many as possible as a testament as to how desensitised human beings can become....

I do find it difficult to understand how so many people in the shots appear to be carefree....

[Killakoala]

I don't wish to make light of any of this, but on the Chaser, last night, Charles Firth was interviewing Americans asking if Muslims should have special ID, should they have serial numbers tattooed on their arms, should they be incarcerated for life, etc. All very innocently asked, and, with the power of editing, all the respondents said yes. Scary, but funny (because it is scary).

He did pick out all the rednecks and hicks though.

As for the images, it's hard to believe that those people who look as normal as anyone else, just happen to be in SS uniforms, were responsible for such atrocities.

I just hope that in 60 years from now, my military images will not be linked with such bad things as that, even my Iraq photos.

[PiroStitch]

Shows you the potential evil humans can create

[sirhc55]

At least Gruppenfuhrer Pohl was hung in 1951. Pohl was for a time (until I believe 1943) the overall commander of the concentration camps.

Part of my studies many eons ago was the SS. The people shown in these pics belong to the Ordnung SS and are quite different to the Waffen SS who have been acclaimed by many allied soldiers as being excellent fighters.