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Bookmark or Share- Mauthausen Was One of the Most Notorious Concentration Camps Operated ...Construction of Mauthausen concentration camp, 1938. (Photo Credit: Fototeca Gilardi / Getty Images) In the wake of Austria’s annexation in March 1938 (the Anschluss), the establishment of Mauthausen concentration camp marked a grim milestone in the escalation of the Germans’ campaign against those the Führer deemed “unworthy.”Situated along the Danube, near the “Wiener Graben ...
- The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945On 12 March 1938 the ‘Anschluss’ (‘Annexation’) of austrofascist Austria to the German Reich took place. Two weeks later, the National Socialist Gauleiter (regional head) of Upper Austria, August Eigruber, announced to an enthusiastic audience that his Gau would have the ‘distinction’ of building a concentration camp. The location chosen was the town of Mauthausen on the Danube.
- Mauthausen concentration camp - WikipediaMauthausen was a German 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.
- Where Murder Was a Way of Life: The Mauthausen Concentration CampMauthausen was one of the worst of the concentration camps in this system. “One of the worst,” a phrase of comparison, is not used lightly here. Established in 1938 near the city of Linz in Upper Austria, it was founded, along with Flossenbürg and Ravensbrück, on orders from Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , as part of an expansion of ...
- Mauthausen - Holocaust Historical SocietyMauthausen . Mauthausen - Kaltenbrunner, Himmler and Camp Commandant Franz Ziereis - April 1941 (Bundesarchiv) Mauthausen Concentration Camp was established shortly after the Nazi Anschluss of Austria, in March 1938, near an abandoned stone quarry approximately three miles from the market town of Mauthausen, in Upper Austria. On May 16, 1938, work began in the quarry, initially employing ...
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