![Karl Höcker; the original caption reads "Sommer 1944". [LCID: 34593]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/c93388f7-ab4e-403a-a606-49d09f618328.jpg)
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.
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