Chilling photos show the Nazis of Auschwitz enjoying holidays and weekends in the shadow of the death camp, with female staff happily posing for pictures, officers sunbathing in deck chairs and a gas chamber supervisor listening to music.The candid images reveal give insight into the parallel lives lived by the officers and guards who worked at Auschwitz as 1.1 million people were murdered in the gas chambers nearby.Many of the most unsettling photographs were taken at Solahütte, a recreation resort less than 20 miles south of Auschwitz on the Sola River, which prisoners had been forced to build for the captors' enjoyment.
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