Haunting indeed denny. I have never seen them before either. I assume they are on Display in D.C. Extremely sickening seeing the joy in their faces. And to have been able to coordinate the time tables, being that the pictures were taken when Auschwitz-Birkenau was at its most lethal. Sick to my stomach.
It's come up from time to time. http://www.ww2f.com/topic/10652-absolutely-sickening/ http://www.ww2f.com/topic/34067-were-special-personnel-stationed-at-concentration-camps/
I've seen them before, but they still give me chills. I always imagine dour people in charge of these camps. It's hard to imagine that they were people who enjoyed their time off. Somehow, this makes what they were involved in all the more heinous. Banality of evil describes it perfectly.
Not implying this is "new".....i think they came to light bin 2006.? Recent, at any rate, and the first time for me seeing them. Timely, as I just watched Monika, the daughter of Amon Goeth, tell HER story. Kind of "funny" that her daughter is very dark skinned, as Monika was involved with a man from Africa and she became pregnant by him. Her father, Amon, must be retching in his grave. Perhaps there is a God..... I guess you could argue that ANY person working at one of those camps was sick, but I believe Amon Goeth was actually, clinically, mentally disturbed.....even by NAZI standards.
if you ever read up on serial killers, they are shown to be quite ''normal''....when they give detailed accounts of their murders, they seem as if they are just talking about going out to get the morning paper......as these '''workers'' at the death camps are ''normal'' ....I guess we are haunted, it is chilling, because some humans do what are the most horrible things to other humans, and they are just doing what some humans have done since we became human-murder, rape, rob, kill, etc...what we find unimaginable, humans are doing it...genocide has happened long before WW2 and has many times after.....a human ''trait''??