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	Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mauthausen (from summer 1940, Mauthausen-Gusen) was a group of 49 Nazi concentration camps situated around the small town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria, about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz.
		Unlike many other concentration camp systems, Mauthausen was used mostly for extermination through labour of the intelligentsia, educated people and members of the higher classes in countries subjugated by Germany during World War II.
		Twenty are known to have served in the Mauthausen camp, sixty in the whole camp complex.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauthausen_concentration_camp (1113 words)

	The 11th Armored Division is pleased to post the following article written by 12 year old Kendra Dickinson
		The Mauthausen Concentration Camp was established on August 8, 1938, as a forced labor camp.
		Mauthausen was selected as the site for a concentration camp because of the granite quarries that were there.
		The Mauthausen Concentration Camp was liberated by the First Platoon of Troop D, 41st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized of the 11th Armored Division (Kosiek, 1).
	www.11tharmoreddivision.com /history/mauthausen/mauthausen_camp.htm (1807 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Mauthausen gas chambers again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Assuming that the "gas chamber" of Mauthausen was and is only a faked, I think that this invention have been originated by the convinction that show to Austrian people those species of horrors, can help to prevent a resurgence of Nazism or Antisemitism in Your country.
		With Mauthausen, we begin to deal with the type of concentration camp (Konzentrationslager) that was not specifically designed as an extermination center (Vernichtungslager) as well (as Auschwitz and Maidanek were).
		Sometimes the van shuttled between Mauthausen and Gusen: in each of the camps prisoners, most of them sick, were loaded into the van, and their bodies were unloaded at the other end.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=28640 (5098 words)

	mauthausen concentration camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Mauthausen was a group of 49 Nazi concentration camps situated in the small town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz.
		It was established on August 8, 1938 and under the command of Franz Ziereis at the time it was liberated on May 5, 1945 by the United States 11th armoured division.
		Among those prisoners liberated was Simon Wiesenthal who published in 1946 a book titled "KZ Mauthausen, Bild und Wort" (Concentration Camp Mauthausen - pictures and words).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Mauthausen_concentration_camp.html (172 words)

	Mauthausen Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Mauthausen Concentration Camp was to become the first concentration camp outside the “Old Reich” and one of the most notorious camps within the entire Nazi camp system.
		From its official establishment until the liberation of the camp by the 3rd U.S. Army on 5 May 1945 altogether almost 200,000 prisoners from numerous European and non-European countries had to endure the inhuman conditions of internment and torture by the SS.
		The prisoners died of exhaustion as a consequence of the exploitation of their labour power, of epidemics due to the disastrous hygienic conditions, were tortured to death, shot by SS guards or gassed in the gas chambers of Mauthausen, in the sub-camp Gusen and in the Hartheim “Euthanasia institution”.
	www.mauthausen-memorial.at /db/admin/int/kz.php?l_id=6 (299 words)

	Mauthausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Mauthausen held the record for concentration camps (as opposed to extermination camps) for executions and deaths, some 36,000 from January 1939 through April 1945.
		Many of these died from the exhausting labor in the granite quarry; others were executed in the gas chamber or shot to death.
		Mauthausen was liberated by the U.S. Army 11th Armored Division on 5-6 May 1945.
	www.thirdreichruins.com /mauthausen.htm (591 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Mauthausen was created shortly after the Anscheluss of Austria in March of 1938, near a abandoned stone quarry.
		Mauthausen and Gusen were placed in the most harsh classification.
		The number of prinsoners estimated to have passed through Mauthausen was 199,404, and it is believed that 119,000 of them were killed.
	www.fatherryan.org /holocaust/cpmautsn.htm (199 words)

	Gallery - Mauthausen - Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		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.
		Mauthausen survivors cheer the soldiers of the Eleventh Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army one day after their actual liberation.
		Survivors in Mauthausen open one of the crematoria ovens for American troops who are inspecting the camp.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/resource/gallery/MAUT1.htm (173 words)

	OLOCAUSTO - Campi di sterminio e concentramento, Mauthausen
		Le vittime di Mauthausen cominciarono ad essere cremate a Steyr a partire dal 5 settembre del 1938 e la pratica continuò fino a che il 5 maggio 1940, il primo dei tre forni costruiti dalla ditta J.A. Topf e Figli di Erfurt fu operante nel campo.
		Ora gli internati venne sfruttati con più "razionalità" e nelle succursali di Mauthausen lavoravano per l’industria bellica dei maggiori centri industriali austriaci come Linz, dove erano obbligati a scavare stabilimenti sotterranei, bunker per la difesa, ad effettuare lo sgombero delle macerie e a partecipare ai lavori agricoli.
		Tra il 1938 e il 1945, i cittadini di Mauthausen vissero fianco a fianco a uno dei più noti campi di concentramento nella storia del Terzo Reich.
	www.gndesign.it /shoahnet/mauthausen.htm (586 words)

	KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN Gunskirchen
		The Gunskirchen concentration camp was one of the sub-camps of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
		In April 1945 the Mauthausen main camp was not able to house the continuing flood of prisoners anymore who were transported in from the east.
		Wiesner, one of the survivors, and secretary of the society of victims of the Nazi’s in Hungary, was one of the prisoners that was forced to march from Mauthausen to Gunskirchen in one of the death marches.
	www.gusen.org /dok/gk/gk01x.htm (2376 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Mauthausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The most common cause of death at Mauthausen was the sheer brutality of the working conditions in the quarry, combined with malnutrition.
		The total number of prisoners admitted to the Mauthausen concentration camp (men, women, children and juveniles of various nationalities), according to calculations conducted by former camp clerk Hans Marsalek amounted to at least 197,464 (192,737 men and 4727 women).
		The 13 "death registers" (Totenbücher) of the Mauthausen chief camp doctor which were saved from destruction by the SS and could thus be preserved, contain entries of 68,874 names.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=15149 (1587 words)

	Survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp
		On May 5, 1945, the day of the liberation of Mauthausen by American troops, there were approximately 60,000 survivors in Mauthausen and all its sub-camps, according to Christian Bernadac, one of the prisoners in the camp.
		One of the prisoners at Mauthausen, who survived Auschwitz, only to die on May 5, 1945, the day of liberation, was Peter van Pels, the boy who hid in the annex with Anne Frank.
		One of the Jewish survivors of the Mauthausen main camp was Mike Jacobs (Mendel Jakubowicz) from Konin, Poland, who emigrated to Dallas, TX in 1951 at the age of 26.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Mauthausen/KZMauthausen/Survivors (1079 words)

	Mauthausen Concentration Camp (Austria)
		The sick, wounded or those too weak to work were hurled in the Stube B. Here, covered in their own excrement and those of others, they lay on the ground or upon others, wherever they were flung, and left to die.
		In mid-April 1945 when the whole Mauthausen complex was in total chaos due to the mass evacuation from other concentration camps, cases of cannibalism were reported.
		In Mauthausen all gassed inmates were reported as having died of natural causes.
	www.jewishgen.org /ForgottenCamps/Camps/MauthausenEng.html (1588 words)

	Establishment of the Concentration Camp in Ebensee
		In June 1944 the concentration camp in Mauthausen received Hungarian Jews who had survived the selection process in the concentration camp of Auschwitz; about 1.500 of them arrived in the summer of 1944 in the concentration camp of Ebensee.
		One of the worst evacuation transports arrived in the concentration camp of Ebensee on March 3rd, 1945: it consisted of 2.059 Jewish prisoners from the concentration camp in Wolfsberg which was a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen.
		By the middle of April the evacuation transports from the sub-camps of Mauthausen arrived at the concentration camp in Ebensee.
	www.doew.at /thema/thema_alt/wuv/ebensee/establish.html (1117 words)

	Mauthausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Mauthausen was a high-security walled prison on a hill-top in the Austrian countryside where criminals who had been convicted of serious offences and others believed to be security-threats were housed.
		Photos from outside Mauthausen showing the emergency-water-pool and the 8 meter (26 ft) high wall with guard towers and the main entrance gate.
		After the war the Allies said no mass-murders occurred at walled-camps like Mauthausen, yet the mass-murder of thousands-a-day were kept secret for over one year in camps like Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek, surrounded by see-through wire-fences, roads, and towns, where it would have been impossible to keep mass-murders secret for even one day.
	www.air-photo.com /english/mauth.html (346 words)

	Mauthausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Mauthausen was a camp established in 1938 in Austria, about 6 miles outside the city of Linz..
		Up until 1942, the camp was primarily a camp and killing center for "undesirable political elements" in Germany, as well as a liquidation center for opposition elements in occupied countries.
		They were mostly sitting or lying in the bright spring sunlight, or simply milling about.' An American Officer, George Dyer, considered Mauthausen one of the worst camps uncovered anywhere.
	www.edwardvictor.com /Holocaust/mauthausen_main.htm (311 words)

	Mauthausen Main Camp
		The first is a notice to a wife from the Commandant of the Camp that her husband had died in a local "hospital".
		The second is a request from the authorities at Mauthausen addressed to the Gestapo at Litzmannstadt indicating that a prisoner named Konstantin Suslow had died and that his son who had been shipped to Auschwitz on 8.4.43 should be notified.
		Below are thumbnails of an original copy of a statement given to American authorities by Wolfgang Sanner, the manager of the office responsible for the drafting of forced labor from the concentration camps.
	www.edwardvictor.com /Holocaust/mauthausen_main_camp_main.htm (597 words)

	Camp de concentration de Mauthausen (Autriche)
		En tout et pour tout, le camp principal de Mauthausen était constitué de 32 baraques entourées d'une enceinte barbelée placée sous courant électrique à haute tension, de hauts murs et de plusieurs miradors.
		A la mi-avril 1945, lorsque le complexe de Mauthausen fut plongé dans un chaos total suite à l'arrivée massive de prisonniers provenant d'autres camps évacués, le manque de nourriture fut tel que plusieurs cas de cannibalisme furent rapportés (Evelyn Le Chene "Mauthausen, the history of a death Camp").
		A Mauthausen, tous les prisonniers gazés étaient enregistrés comme "mort de cause naturelle".
	www.jewishgen.org /ForgottenCamps/Camps/MauthausenFr.html (1937 words)

	Mauthausen - Wikipédia
		Le camp de Mauthausen est situé en Autriche à 170 km en amont de Vienne et à 22 km en aval de Linz.
		La carrière employait des déportés pour les exterminer par le travail; ils devaient porter de lourdes pierres et remonter l'escalier de 186 marches sous les coups des SS et des kapos.
		Le camp de Mauthausen a été le dernier camp à être libéré par les forces américaines le 5 mai 1945 (ses annexes ont parfois été découvertes et donc libérées plus tard, comme Ebensee, le 9 mai).
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauthausen (390 words)

	Mauthausen Concentration Camp, August 24th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Mauthausen Concentration Camp is a truly terrible place.
		The camps feels eerily empty—usually when I visit a place that many people have passed through, there is an energy, like each person left a little of their spirit behind there.
		At Mauthausen however, it was as it, even in death, each person who passed through wanted to leave no trace behind.
	www.atonaltrek.com /journals/08_24_03.html (262 words)

	Holocaust: Mauthausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		"I, Alois Hoellriegl, being first duly sworn, declare I was a member of the Totenkopf S. and stationed at the Mauthausen concentration camp from January, 1940, until the end of the war.
		On one occasion, I believe it was in the fall of 1942, Ernst Kaltenbrunner visited Mauthausen.
		Mauthausen: Liberation The United States Army made this film immediately following the liberation of Mauthausen.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/hweb/camps/mauthausen (143 words)

	ZeitzeugInnen-Projekt Mauthausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project intends to preserve the testimonies and memories of victims of Nazi persecution, as a reminder for future generations and as historic evidence.
		The Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project, coordinated by the "Institute of Conflict Research" in Vienna, will be conducting interviews with about 800 survivors of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp (see contact addresses).
		The diversity of the Mauthausen prisoner population will be reflected in the people we ask to be interviewed, considering their nationality, age, category, period of imprisonment, and gender.
	www.ikf.ac.at /mauthausen/projekt_e.htm (261 words)

	Expatica's Spanish news in English: Zapatero honours Spanish Mauthausen prisoners
		MAUTHAUSEN — Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero took part in a ceremony to honour Spanish republicans imprisoned at Mauthausen on the 60th anniversary of the Nazi concentration camp's liberation.
		Zapatero praised the republicans' contributions to peace in Spain and vowed that the lessons of Mauthausen would not be forgotten.
		The majority of Spanish republicans who fell into the hands of the Nazis were imprisoned at Mauthausen, and only about 2,000 of the 8,000 who entered the camp survived the war.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=82&story_id=19848&name=Zapatero+honours+Spanish+Mauthausen+prisoners+ (368 words)

	Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		During the final months of the war, some 20 000 prisoners from other concentration camps were marched to the complex.
		Icy showers - some 3 000 inmates died of hypothermia due to being forced to stay under a stream of icy water for several hours
		Starvation - at Mauthausen camp itself some 2 000 prisoners a week were starved to death
	www.biography.ms /Mauthausen_concentration_camp.html (574 words)

	Fonds de l'Amicale nationale des déportés et familles de disparus de Mauthausen et de ses Kommandos. ...
		Le camp de concentration de Mauthausen avait en effet été classé par l'ordonnance du 28 août 1940 comme camp de concentration de catégorie III destiné aux détenus politiques, aux criminels et aux asociaux considérés tous comme irrécupérables.
		L'Amicale de Mauthausen détient dans ses locaux sis boulevard Saint-Germain à Paris un certain nombre d'archives relatives non seulement à son propre fonctionnement mais aussi à l'histoire du camp de concentration de Mauthausen et de ses camps annexes.
		Un rapport sur l'intendance du camp central de Mauthausen entre les mois d'octobre 1941 et de décembre 1944 intitulé Tätigkeitsberichte n°2 est ainsi conservé, de même que plusieurs bordereaux de primes touchées par les déportés employés dans les différents ateliers du camp central de Mauthausen ou du camp annexe de Gusen.
	www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr /chan/chan/fonds/xml_inv/88AJ/88AJ.html (2074 words)

	---:mauthausen komitee:--- Initiative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		"Mauthausen - Aktiv" nannten sich die überparteilichen Initiativen, die sich an mehreren Orten Österreichs gebildet haben, um die Erinnerung an die Befreiung Österreichs vom Nazi-Faschismus wach zu halten.
		Die erste Gruppe wurde im Herbst 1986 in Oberösterreich gegründet, damit die Tradition der "Mauthausener Befreiungsfeier" weiter gepflegt und entwickelt wird.
		Da die Initiativgruppe ein eigenständiger Verein ist, werden die Aktivitäten politisch und organisatorisch autonom von jenen Personen gestaltet, die sich mit den Zielen des Mauthausen Komitees identifizieren können und die bei der Umsetzung der Ziele mitarbeiten wollen.
	loibl-memorial.uni-klu.ac.at /initiative.html (166 words)

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