
Mauthausen concentration camp - Wikipedia
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Linz) in Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 …
Mauthausen | Holocaust Encyclopedia
The Mauthausen concentration camp was established following the Nazi incorporation of Austria in 1938. Learn about the harsh conditions in the camp.
The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945
After the outbreak of war, people from across Europe were deported to Mauthausen, which gradually developed into a system of several interconnected camps. During this phase, Mauthausen and …
Mauthausen | Nazi Germany, Holocaust, World War II | Britannica
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 …
Where Murder Was a Way of Life: The Mauthausen Concentration Camp
They all had but one purpose: to labor until every drop of energy was squeezed out of them. The Mauthausen concentration camp was one of the places where an ultra-brutal form of capitalism, …
Mauthausen - Holocaust
Mauthausen was one of the Nazis' worst exterminating concentration camps. The prisoners were subjected to brutal treatment, were driven into electric fences and killed using petrol injections. …
Mauthausen - Holocaust Historical Society
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 …
The History of Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Mauthausen was to become the symbol of the Nazi regime in Austria. Almost all of the then Ostmark became a sub-camp of Mauthausen. These sub-camps, as well as the main camp itself, were …
What was Mauthausen? - About Holocaust
Mauthausen was a concentration and labour camp established near Linz after the 1938 Anschluss between Germany and Austria. The central feature of the camp was a quarry in which prisoners were …
Concentration Camp Mauthausen
Around 300 prisoners were transferred from Dachau Concentration Camp to Mauthausen to set up the camp there and to carry out forced labour in the infamous quarry. The first camp consisted of 4 …