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Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Linz ), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany.
The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945. Prisoners during roll-call, between 1942 and 1944 (photo credits: Mauthausen Memorial, Collection Antonio García, S 4665) On 12 March 1938 the ‘Anschluss’ (‘Annexation’) of austrofascist Austria to the German Reich took place.
On January 1, 1945, the Mauthausen camp system had 73,351 prisoners, 959 of them women. At this time Mauthausen incarcerated more male prisoners than any other concentration camp system in Nazi Germany, and had the third largest total prisoner population, behind Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen.
Getting a rare inside glimpse of the Nazi concentration-camp system, he endured a horrendous month in Mauthausen before the liberation. The arrival of the Americans saved Taylor from certain execution.
- Malloryk
Mauthausen, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, located near the village of Mauthausen, on the Danube River, 12 miles (20 km) east of Linz, Austria. It was established in April 1938, shortly after Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany.
- Michael Berenbaum
Nov 24, 2020 · Mauthausen Concentration Camp or ’KZ Mauthausen’ was a vast Nazi concentration camp in northern Austria. History of Mauthausen Concentration Camp. First established in 1938, Mauthausen Concentration Camp was built through the slave labour of prisoners from another such camp, Dachau.
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.
