Columbia University Would Have Invited Them

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Sat Sep 22, 2007 at 6:00 pm PDT • Views: 2,920

Newly released photographs taken in 1944 at a recreation home for the SS team in charge of running the Auschwitz death camp chillingly demonstrate what Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil.”

Second from the left in this photo: Josef Mengele.

UPDATE at 9/22/07 6:14:20 pm:

Here’s the full collection of these nightmarish photographs: Auschwitz through the lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi leadership at the camp. (Hat tip: Maine’s Michael.)

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