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156 photographs documenting the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp.
Mauthausen concentration camps liberation forced labor. 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.
View of the Mauthausen concentration camp. This photograph was taken after the liberation of the camp. Austria, May 5-30, 1945.
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.
Concentration camp of Birkenau Photo List - view extensive photos of Mauthausen concentration camp located outside of Linz, Austria.
#TitleDescription1Rock staircase at the quarry.2The rock quarry.3Top of the rock quarry.4The rock quarry.Cheering survivors greet American troops as they enter the Mauthausen concentration camp a day after the actual liberation. According to P. Serge Choumoff, an historian and survivor of Mauthausen, this event was a recreation of the liberation done at the request of General Eisenhower.
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Finally, the "Specialist Library", available for use as a reference library, contains a constantly expanding collection of secondary literature that focuses on the history of Mauthausen and its subcamps, the history of National Socialism and international memorial cultures and politics.
