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May 19, 2024 · Historians also found Richard Baer on the album's first page. He was the last commandant of Auschwitz, which helped them realize the man next to him was his deputy, Karl Höcker. It turned out...
May 9, 2024 · (May 10, 2024) This week 80 years ago, Auschwitz received its third, and final, commandant, Richard Baer. Baer was born and grew up in Bavaria and was trained as a pastry chef. He joined the Nazi Party in 1930, and in the Spring of 1933, he left his employment as a pastry chef.
5 days ago · Many of the most unsettling snaps are taken at Solahutte, a little known SS resort 30km south of Auschwitz on the Sola River. The first photograph is a double portrait of Richard Baer, the last Auschwitz camp commandant between 1944 and 1945, and his adjutant, Karl Hocker.
1 day ago · From left: German Nazi officers Richard Baer, Josef Mengele and Rudolf Höss on the grounds of the SS retreat outside of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in 1944. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via Wikimedia Commons.
4 days ago · The dusty 32-page album, containing 116 photographs, arrived a few days later. As Erbelding started flipping through the pages, she noticed a photo of two men dressed in SS uniforms. The caption read: "With the Commandant SS Major Baer, Auschwitz. June 21, 1944."
May 19, 2024 · (Jenny Anderson) The result of his latest collaboration with Gronich, “Here There Are Blueberries” is now playing at New York Theatre Workshop, in a taut, 90-minute production that was a finalist...
