Nazi villa demolished

8th October 2011

Rudolf Hoess was one of the officers seen relaxing at the villa

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Residents in the southern town of Miedzybrodzie Bialskie have been left in shock upon discovering a former holiday villa built by Auschwitz prisoners has been demolished in an act of vandalism.

The villa, now nothing more than a pile of wooden planks, was situated in the nearby hamlet of Kotelnica and became notorious a few years ago after it was featured in a series of photographs in Washington’s Holocaust Museum.

The previously unseen pictures, belonging to Auschwitz Commander Karl Hoeckera, showed a number of high-ranking Nazi officials such as Josef Mengele and Rudolf Hoess relaxing at the guesthouse with a group of young ladies in 1944.

According to Gazeta Wyborcza, the act has ...

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