![Funeral for SS officers at Auschwitz, September 1944 [LCID: 34794]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/7af1e04e-d2db-4d00-a165-ba71f2a2e7a0.jpg)
SS officer Karl Höcker salutes in front of an array of wreaths during a military funeral near Auschwitz. The original caption for the photograph reads "Beisetzung von SS Kameraden nach einem Terrorangriff." (Burying our SS comrades from a terror attack.) Pictured in the background are Josef Kramer and Karl Moeckel.
This image shows the aftermath of the September 13, 1944, bombing of IG Farben in which 15 SS men died in the SS residential blocks and 28 were seriously wounded.
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