
	Where results make sense

Topic: Mauthausen concentration camp

Related Topics

Mauthausen

List of German concentration camps

Concentration camp

Belsen concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp

List of subcamps of Mauthausen

Chelmno concentration camp

Treblinka concentration camp

The Holocaust

Dachau

Belzec

Nazi concentration camp badges

Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka

US 11th Armored Division

In the News (Wed 11 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	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 prisoners of the concentration camp were to be used as a cheap labor force in the quarries.
	www.11tharmoreddivision.com /history/mauthausen/mauthausen_camp.htm (1807 words)

	Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mauthausen (known from the summer of 1940 as Mauthausen-Gusen) grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that were built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly 20 kilometres east of the city of Linz.
		The camps formed one of the first massive concentration camp complexes in Nazi Germany, and were the last ones to be occupied by the Western Allies or the Soviet Union.
		On August 8, 1938, prisoners from Dachau concentration camp were sent to the town of Mauthausen near Linz, Austria, to begin the construction of a new camp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauthausen_concentration_camp (6433 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
		Mauthausen (known from the summer of 1940 as Mauthausen-Gusen) grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that were built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly 20 kilometres east of the city of Linz.
		The camps formed one of the first massive concentration camp complexes in Nazi Germany, and were the last ones to be occupied by the Western Allies or the Soviet Union.
		The two main camps, Mauthausen and Gusen I, were also the only two camps in the whole of Europe to be labelled as "Grade III" camps, which meant that they were intended to be the toughest camps for the "Incorrigible Political Enemies of the Reich".
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mauthausen_concentration_camp (5476 words)

	Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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 of Linz.
		Unlike many other concentration camp systems Mauthausen-Gusen used mostly for extermination through labour of intelligentsia educated people and higher classes of countries subjugated by Germany during World War II Until early 1940 the largest group of inmates consisted German socialists homosexuals and Roma.
		Then the were transferred to other concentration camps for or killed at the camp with a injection and cremated in a local crematorium.
	www.freeglossary.com /Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp (943 words)

	Mauthausen concentration camp
		Mauthausen (from summer 1940, Mauthausen-Gusen) was agroup of 49 Nazi concentration camps situated around the small town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria, about 20 kilometers east ofthe city of Linz.
		Unlike many other concentration camp systems, Mauthausen-Gusen was used mostly for extermination through labour of theintelligentsia, educated people and higher classes of the countries subjugated by Germany during World War II.
		Then the inmates were transferred to other concentration camps for extermination or killed at the camp with a lethalinjection and cremated in a local crematorium.
	www.therfcc.org /mauthausen-concentration-camp-40319.html (574 words)

	Establishment of the Concentration Camp in Ebensee
		The transports into this concentration camp were no longer organized on the basis of economical necessities, and nobody cared anymore whether the prisoners were still able to work or not.
		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
		South of the main camp, off the entrance road to the camp, was the hospital camp.
		On the opposite side of the camp was the Tent Camp, consisting of 16 tents, erected in the fall of 1944 to accommodate large incoming groups of Hungarian Jews.
		Camp doctors in the infirmary used phenol injections to kill patients too weak to move.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005196 (696 words)

	Mauthausen
		The camp with the front entrance, shown on a postcard in figure three, was located on a leveled hilltop 20 km from the city of Linz, along the Danube River.
		Mauthausen Concentration Camp was established on August 8, 1938 when Himmler ordered a couple of hundred prisoners from the Dachau Concentration camp to be transported to the little town, Mauthausen.
		An envelope sent by an inmate from Dachau Concentration Camp to a relative in Vienna is shown in figure five.
	www.rickshaw.org /mauthausen.htm (862 words)

	Mauthausen
		On August 8, 1938, prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp were transferred to the “Wiener Graben” quarry and construction of the Mauthausen concentration camp was begun.
		The Mauthausen camp was the central camp (referred to as the “mother camp” by the SS guards) for all of Austria.
		Most of the Mauthausen prisoners had been put into “protective custody as persons detrimental to the commonweal” by the National Socialist authorities because of their nationality, racial origin, political affiliation or religious beliefs.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/mauthausen.html (676 words)

	Mauthausen gusen concentration camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Start the Mauthausen gusen concentration camp article or add a request for it.
		Look for "Mauthausen gusen concentration camp" in the Wikimedia Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
		Promotional articles about yourself, your friends, your company or products; or articles written as part of a marketing or promotional campaign, may be deleted in accordance with our deletion policies.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/mauthausen_gusen_concentration_camp (194 words)

	Mauthausen Concentration Camp (Austria)
		The main camp of Mauthausen consisted of 32 barracks surrounded by electrified barbed wire, high stone walls, and watch towers.
		Due to the immense number of prisoners that poured into the camp, Commandant Ziereis ordered that the fields to the north and west were to be ringed with wire.
		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.
	www.jewishgen.org /forgottencamps/Camps/MauthausenEng.html (1588 words)

	Mauthausen concentration camp - The Jiggies Reference Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.jiggies.com /reference/Mauthausen_concentration_camp (152 words)

	Image:Ebensee.jpg - TheBestLinks.com - Austria, PD, Mauthausen concentration camp, US 80th Infantry Division, ...
		Mauthausen concentration camp Source: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/ ARC Identifier: 531271
		Original caption: Starved prisoners, nearly dead from hunger, pose in concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria.
		The camp was reputedly used for "scientific" experiments.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Image__3A__Ebensee.jpg.html (153 words)

	ZeitzeugInnen-Projekt Mauthausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Mauthausen - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mauthausen
		German concentration camp near Linz, Austria, established in 1941.
		Although not actually an extermination camp, an estimated 180,000 prisoners died there.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mauthausen (73 words)

	International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 4, p. 296
		The fourth crime for which Kaltenbrunner is responsible as Chief of the Security Police and SD was the commitment of racial and political undesirables to concentration camps and annihilation camps for slave labor and mass murder.
		This concentration camp, as shown by Document 1063(a)PS, which was received this morning as Exhibit Number USA-492, was classified by Heydrich in January 1941 in Category III, a camp for the most heavily accused prisoners and for asocial prisoners who were considered incapable of being reformed.
		This is the affidavit of Alois Höllriegl former guard at Mauthausen concentration camp.
	www.holocaust-history.org /works/imt/04/htm/t296.htm?size=%2d1 (420 words)

	'Special Vans...or Other Remedies'
		The meaning of this code word is made clear by the reference, in the final paragraph, to the substitution of bottled carbon monoxide until the vans are ready for use.
		At that point in time, I would be prepared to put a special van of that kind at the disposal of the Mauthausen concentration camp for a specified time.
		Nach diesem Zeitpunkt wäre ich bereit, dem K.L. Mauthausen für eine bestimmte Zeit einen derartigen Sonderwagen zur Verfügung zu stellen.
	www.holocaust-history.org /19420326-rauff-sonderwagen (549 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Concentration camp survivors commemorate victory over Nazi Germany
		Over 20,000 people from Austria and 51 other countries gathered Sunday at the Mauthausen concentration camp in north Austria to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nazi defeat in World War II.
		The ceremony began when the gate of the Mauthausen camp reopened at midday Sunday, in a symbolic reenactment of the liberation by Allied troops on May 5, 1945.
		Survivors, veterans, representatives of various countries and members of youth groups filed into the central square of the camp and laid wreathes in honor of the 100,000 victims of the largest Nazi concentration camp in Austria and its 49 subsidiaries.
	english.people.com.cn /200505/09/eng20050509_184130.html (317 words)

	Mauthausen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		I believe this number includes the deaths at the nearby Gusen camps, where more inmates died than actually at the Mauthausen main camp.
		Mauthausen was liberated by the U.S. Army 11th Armored Division on 5-6 May 1945.
	www.thirdreichruins.com /mauthausen.htm (608 words)

	NPR : Holocaust Survivor, Camp Liberator Share Memories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		All Things Considered, May 5, 2005 · Holocaust victims and liberators of concentration camps are gathered in Washington, D.C., for a 60th anniversary commemoration.
		Edgar Edelsack was 21 when he arrived at the Mauthausen camp as part of the 11th Armored Division in Gen. Patton's 3rd Army.
		Weiss and his father were sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and then to the subcamp of Melk, where they were forced to build tunnels into the side of the mountains.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4632393 (731 words)

	TR 4/2003: Baurat h.c. Dipl.-Ing. Walter Lüftl: The General in the Ice-Block
		The weather at Mauthausen on February 16, 1945, was sunny.
		It is quite possible that on that day, there were piles of corpses at Mauthausen, including General Karbyshev's body; it is quite possible that victims indeed froze to death on account of inhuman treatment, but no living person could have been turned into a block of ice at that time.
		The Mauthausen book tells us that in March 1943 there were altogether 850 deaths,[4] on March 31, 1943, the camp counted 13 Jewish detainees; for this month, only two Jewish deaths were recorded.
	www.vho.org /tr/2003/4/Lueftl386f.html (844 words)

	Mauthausen - new and used books
		A beautiful print of the Austrian town of Mauthausen on the bank of the Danube river.On the right side of the river is seen some long boats pulled up on the bank with a man and women standing t, the man smoking on his pipe.
		The town on the opposite bank has a number of boats pulled up to the shore and there is a tall church with a dome type tower.
		guidebook for the visitor to the Nazi concentration camp established in a quarry in Austria shortly after the Anschluss.
	www.isbn.pl /T-mauthausen (446 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-3844-ps
		During the beginning of December 1944 the so-called "bullet" orders were shown to me in the political department of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
		One of these orders stated that foreign civilian workers who had repeatedly escaped from work camps were to be sent to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp under the "bullet" action in case of recapture.
		On the basis of this "bullet" order and the oral instruction of Kaltenbrunner which went with it 1,800 foreign civilian workers, officers, and noncommissioned officers were brought to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
	www.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-3844-ps (293 words)

	Mauthausen
		Mauthausen is a small town in Upper Austria.
		Documentation of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial - main issue: Historical overview of the years 1938 - 1945; further information for visitors and researchers.
		A satellite camp of Mauthausen on November 18th, 1943 near the village of Ebensee in Upper Austria, one of over 40 outposts of the concentration camp Mauthausen, where prisoners had to work for the German armament industry.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Mauthausen (909 words)

	Photograph of the prisoners' gate at the former Mauthausen concentration camp, taken May 2003
		Photograph of the prisoners' gate at the former Mauthausen concentration camp, taken May 2003
		The Mauthausen concentration camp was built on two levels and it had two entrances, one for the SS and one for the prisoners.
		The large white stone to the left of the entrance is the memorial to Lt. Gen.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Mauthausen/Tour/index.html (141 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Simon Wiesenthal, who survived a dozen Nazi concentration camps and then spent his life hunting down and bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, has died at the age 96.
		Among them were Franz Stangl, who commanded the prison camps at Treblinka and Sobibor and had a role in at least 900,000 deaths, and Queens housewife Mrs.
		Wiesenthal was barely alive when he and the other inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp were liberated by an American armored unit on May 5, 1945.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=90166 (399 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Nazi camp war crimes suspect dies
		A former SS guard at a concentration camp, who settled in Britain after being deported from the United States for suspected war crimes, died yesterday after a heart attack.
		Mr Schweidler, born in Slovakia, was a guard from 1942 to 1945 at the Mauthausen camp in Austria, where more than 80,000 prisoners died through gassing, slave labour, being shot and being used for experiments.
		Lord Janner, secretary of the all-party war crimes group and a former war crimes investigator, said: "I deeply regret that Schweidler did not live to stand trial for the hideous crimes committed while he was a guard in the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp.
	www.guardian.co.uk /nazis/article/0,2763,191280,00.html (398 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)