File:Josef Mengele, Auschwitz. Album Höcker (cropped).jpg

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Summary

Author
Unknown, i.e. either Bernhard Walther or Ernst Hofmann or Karl-Friedrich Höcker
Description
English: Mengele on the grounds on Solahütte, the SS retreat outside of Auschwitz, in 1944.
Date 1944 (probably 29 July)
Accession number
34753
Object history The photograph album was found by an unidentified American counterintelligence officer who was billeted in Frankfurt after Germany's surrender in 1945.
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Camera location49° 46′ 46.7″ N, 19° 11′ 21.36″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Josef Mengele

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49°46'46.69939"N, 19°11'21.35890"E

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