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Solahütte
''Solahütte'' (wikt:AKA, a.k.a. ''Solehütte'', ''Soletal'', ''SS-Hütte Soletal'', or ''SS Hütte Porabka'') was a little-known resort in Poland for the Nazi German guards, administrators, and auxiliary personnel of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz/Birkenau/Buna facilities during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Although postcards of the era sent by German staff sometimes bore the mysterious pre-printed return address "''SS Hütte Soletal''", the rustic hamlet remained largely unknown to historians until 2007, when the Höcker Album of memorabilia owned by SS officer Karl-Friedrich Höcker including vintage Auschwitz photographs was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which then released images from the album online for study. Some of the photographs identified ''Solahütte'' for the first time.dead link ''Solahütte'' is around by car from Auschwitz. The site is located near the bends in the Soła river where in 1935 engineers finished a heavy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Höcker Album
The Höcker Album (or Hoecker Album) is a collection of photographs believed to have been collected by Karl-Friedrich Höcker, an officer in 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 unnamed 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. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |