Richard Baer (far left, 1911-63) and Rudolf Höss (far right, 1901-47) both served as SS commandants of the concentration camps at Auschwitz. Josef Mengele (centre, 1911-79) was a Nazi SS doctor who performed horrific pseudo-scientific experiments on detainees at the Auschwitz. The photograph was taken at Auschwitz in 1944.
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