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Camp SS and Guards. Swearing-in of SS-Men in Mauthausen, 20 April 1941 (photo credits: Mauthausen Memorial / Collections, Collection Mariano Constante) In August 1938, members of the SS were transferred from Dachau concentration camp to Mauthausen along with the first prisoners.
- The Gusen Branch Camp
At the start of 1944, the SS initiated a giant, underground...
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- The Subcamps
From 1941/42 onwards, the SS transferred ever greater...
- Exhibitions and Room of Names
Exhibitions and Room of Names - Camp SS and Guards -...
- Development and Projects
Development and Projects - Camp SS and Guards -...
- Teaching Suggestions
Teaching Suggestions - Camp SS and Guards - KZ-Gedenkstätte...
- The Final Phase
Photograph taken in secret of a death march of Hungarian...
- The Gusen Branch Camp
The following day, the guards of Mauthausen were replaced with unarmed Volkssturm soldiers and an improvised unit formed of elderly police officers and firefighters evacuated from Vienna.
- The Beginnings
- Extermination Through Labour
- Arms Production and Prisoner Work
- Chaos and Mass Death at The End
- Liberation
The first prisoners arrived at Mauthausen on 8th August 1938. Roughly 300 prisoners were sent from Dachau concentration camp in order to build the camp and work in the infamous onsite quarry. These 300 men were guarded by 80 members of the Dachau SS-Totenkopfverbandes, who would later form the foundation of the guard unit at Mauthausen. The first c...
In the following years, Mauthausen became one of the most feared camps in the concentration camp system – it was the only "category III", the worst category. For many prisoners deportation to Mauthausen meant arriving at a death camp, their prison records were marked RU (Rückkehr unerwünscht/return undesirable). Prisoners who fell into this categor...
The on-going war and the ever-growing losses of the German Wehrmacht in terms of both personnel and materials meant that more and more men were being called up for military service and an increases demand for arms. Thousands of women were also conscripted and millions of forced labourers were deported to Germany to work in arms production. All atte...
The efforts to increase arms output and the increased use of prisoners for war work saw an enormous and rapid increase in the number of prisoners, from 25,000 people at the end of 1943 to over 74,000 by the end of 1944, eventually reaching its peak at 84,000 in March 1945. Altogether, the number of Mauthausen prisoners is estimated to have been 200...
The liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp was the last liberation by Allied soldiers. At the beginning of May the SS guards began to be removed from the camp. Shortly before the last guards left all the prisoners who had worked in jobs that offered them especially incriminating insight into the workings of the camp were shot. The last such ex...
The first consignment was accompanied by 88 SS guards also from Dachau, and were members of the SS-Totenkopfverbande. In 1938, a total of 1,100 prisoners arrived. The first political prisoners also came from Dachau Concentration Camp, and they arrived in Mauthausen during May 1939.
The SS incarcerated and killed approximately 5,000 recaptured prisoners of war in Mauthausen within the framework of “Operation K.” Approximately 85 percent of the recaptured prisoners were Soviet soldiers; the remainder included Polish, Yugoslav, Dutch, French, and Belgian soldiers.
Camps that had not been shut down were re-organised in line with the Dachau model, and any SA, police, or civilian guards were dismissed and replaced with SS soldiers. This section will explore how the SS developed the notorious Nazi concentration camps from 1934 onwards, who they imprisoned, and how the inmates lived.
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In 1941 the SS started to construct a gas chamber and other installations at Mauthausen for the systematic murder of large groups of people. During the second half of the war the prisoners, who now included women for the first time, were increasingly used as forced labourers in the arms industry.
