Summer getaway for the monsters of Auschwitz: Chilling images show Nazis sunbathing on deckchairs, a gas chamber supervisor enjoying some music and women posing for photos just miles from WWII death camp

Chilling photos show the Nazis of Auschwitz enjoying holidays and weekends in the shadow of the WWII death camp, with female staff happily posing for pictures, officers sunbathing in deck chairs and a gas chamber supervisor listening to music.

The candid images give insight into the parallel lives lived by the officers and guards who worked at Auschwitz as 1.1 million people were murdered in the gas chambers nearby.

Many of the most unsettling photographs were taken at Solahütte, a recreation…