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German concentration camp at Auschwitz was not hell for everyone
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The Hindustan Times
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July 6, 2008
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London, July 6 -- The concentration camp established for Jews and other non-Aryans at Auschwitz by German dictator Adolf Hitler's Nazis was without doubt a place of horror, but for camp officers and staff, there were pleasurable activities like sunbathing, going on picnics, music sessions and putting up decorations.
According to The Sunday Telegraph, which has acquired access to some rare photographs of life at Auschwitz in 1945, it was not hell for everyone.
According to the paper, in June1945, an American Army officer in Frankfurt found an abandoned apartment and was hoping to make it livable during the period of ...
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