![The cover of the photograph album. [LCID: 34579]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0e5fcba2-09e4-4391-9dd7-fe1345e72d9e.jpg "The cover of the photograph album. [LCID: 34579]")
Karl Höcker's photograph album includes both documentation of official visits and ceremonies at Auschwitz as well as more personal photographs depicting the many social activities that he and other members of the Auschwitz camp staff enjoyed.
Item View![Karl Höcker (on left, looking at the camera) relaxes with SS physicians, including Dr. [LCID: 34797]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/9faa7e46-dc11-4218-a875-ef45cd927aeb.jpg "Karl Höcker (on left, looking at the camera) relaxes with SS physicians, including Dr. [LCID: 34797]")
Karl Höcker (on left, looking at the camera) relaxes with SS physicians, including Dr. Fritz Klein (far left), Dr. Horst Schumann (partially obscured next to Klein, identified from other photographs), and Dr. Eduard Wirths (third from right, wearing tie).
From Karl Höcker's photograph album, which includes both documentation of official visits and ceremonies at Auschwitz as well as more personal photographs depicting the many social activities that he and other members of the Auschwitz camp staff enjoyed. These rare images show Nazis singing, hunting, and even trimming a Christmas tree. They provide a chilling contrast to the photographs of thousands of Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz at the same time.
Item View![Obersturmführer Karl Höcker, June 21, 1944. [LCID: 34580]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/21be029f-f135-4b97-92f3-d7a1c25e5be3.jpg "Obersturmführer Karl Höcker, June 21, 1944. [LCID: 34580]")
Obersturmführer Karl Höcker, June 21, 1944.
Karl Höcker, adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz, kept a photograph album. The album includes both documentation of official visits and ceremonies at Auschwitz as well as more personal photographs depicting the many social activities that he and other members of the Auschwitz camp staff enjoyed. These rare images show Nazis singing, hunting, and even trimming a Christmas tree. They provide a chilling contrast to the photographs of thousands of Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz at the same time.
Item View![Karl Höcker; the original caption reads "Sommer 1944". [LCID: 34593]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c93388f7-ab4e-403a-a606-49d09f618328.jpg "Karl Höcker; the original caption reads \"Sommer 1944\". [LCID: 34593]")
Photograph of Karl Höcker. He is standing in front of an air raid shelter.
From Karl Höcker's photograph album, which includes both documentation of official visits and ceremonies at Auschwitz as well as more personal photographs depicting the many social activities that he and other members of the Auschwitz camp staff enjoyed. These rare images show Nazis singing, hunting, and even trimming a Christmas tree. They provide a chilling contrast to the photographs of thousands of Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz at the same time.
Item View![Richard Baer and Karl Höcker look over a document with SS-Standartenführer Dr. [LCID: 34807]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/698fefb7-7537-4e33-bf1e-af4505977970.jpg "Richard Baer and Karl Höcker look over a document with SS-Standartenführer Dr. [LCID: 34807]")
Richard Baer and Karl Höcker look over a document with SS-Standartenführer Dr. Enno Lolling, the director of the Office for Sanitation and Hygiene in the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps. From left to right: Lolling, Baer, Höcker.
From Karl Höcker's photograph album, which includes both documentation of official visits and ceremonies at Auschwitz as well as more personal photographs depicting the many social activities that he and other members of the Auschwitz camp staff enjoyed. These rare images show Nazis singing, hunting, and even trimming a Christmas tree. They provide a chilling contrast to the photographs of thousands of Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz at the same time.
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