In January 2007, a photo album arrived at the Holocaust Museum that gave an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the Auschwitz complex where more than 1 million people -- mostly Jews -- were killed. The pictures show the everyday lives of the guards and their visitors at the complex, which operated from 1940 to 1945. Jeffrey Brown talks to the museum's director and an archivist about the significance of the pictures.

Many of the photos depict guards and auxiliaries relaxing at the Solahutte recreation lodge on the outskirts of the Auschwitz complex in Poland near the Sola River.

The ceremony marked the handover of documents and authority from the construction department to the camp upon completion of the SS hospital in Auschwitz.

Some of the pictures show the officers at target practice, a hunting party and a military funeral of their comrades who died in the December 1944 Allied bombing of Auschwitz.

The only other Auschwitz photos owned by the Holocaust Museum depict the railside selection process of Hungarian Jews arriving at the camp.