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Explore photographs showing the Mauthausen camp, personnel, and conditions. An estimated 197,464 prisoners passed through the Mauthausen concentration camp system between August 1938 and May 1945. At least 95,000 people were killed there.
- 13-Year-Old Survivor of The Mauthausen Concentration Camp
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- 13-Year-Old Survivor of The Mauthausen Concentration Camp
The Mauthausen concentration camp was established shortly after the German annexation of Austria (1938). Prisoners in the camp were forced to perform crushing labor in a nearby stone quarry and, later, to construct subterranean tunnels for rocket assembly factories.
View of the Mauthausen concentration camp. This photograph was taken after the liberation of the camp. Austria, May 5-30, 1945.
The exhibition ‘The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945’ offers an overview of the history of the Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamps. It is located in a historical camp building, the former ‘Krankenrevier’ or ‘infirmary’, where sick prisoners were treated from summer 1944 onwards.
After the outbreak of war, people from across Europe were deported to Mauthausen, which gradually developed into a system of several interconnected camps. During this phase, Mauthausen and Gusen were the concentration camps with the harshest imprisonment conditions and the highest mortality.
In order to gain insight into the Mauthausen concentration camp system, under this menu item you will find - in addition to a virtual tour of the site - descriptions of the exhibitions at the Mauthausen Memorial and information about memorials located at former satellite camps of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
Apr 28, 2019 · For decades, a photo album that helped convict Nazi generals of war crimes was kept in a cupboard in suburban Australia. The photos of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria were meant to be ...
