The beginning of a ceremony. Photograph »

Solahütte, an SS retreat. Photograph »

Left to right: Josef Kramer, Dr. Josef Mengele, Richard Baer, Karl Höcker, and an unidentified officer. Photograph »

Left to right: Dr. Josef Mengele, Rudolf Höss, Josef Kramer, and an unidentified officer. Photograph »

A "sing-along" during a social gathering of the SS hierarchy at Solahütte. The front row consists of (left to right): Karl Höcker, Otto Moll, Rudolf Höss, Richard Baer, Josef Kramer, Franz Hössler, and Josef Mengele. Photograph »

The SS female auxiliaries (Helferinnen) run down a ramp in Solahütte to the music of an accordion. Photograph »

The SS female auxiliaries show with mock sadness that they have finished eating their blueberries, July 22, 1944. Photograph »

September 1, 1944, Richard Baer ceremonially accepts a copy of the construction plans from the Chief of the Central Construction Directorate of the Waffen SS, SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Bischoff, celebrating the opening of an SS military hospital (SS-Lazarette). Photograph »

The funeral of SS officers killed in the December 26, 1944, Allied bombing of Auschwitz. Photograph »

The funeral of SS officers killed in the December 26, 1944, Allied air raid on Auschwitz. Karl Höcker is giving the Nazi salute in front of a group of mourning women and children. Photograph »