Photos have emerged of German soldiers hamming it up in Norway, taken four months before the holocaust in that country. Beginning in November 1942 the Jewish population were sent to the death camps.
Nazi leader Reichskommisar Josef Terboven is pictured in many of the photos - as ruler of Norway during the occupation, he was hated by both the Norwegians and his own men.
An album compiled by an anonymous source and seized by Allied service men as a souvenir after the war sought to undermine the view of the Reich as violent and murderous.
The album will be auctioned today.
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