A camp for men opened in August 1938 near Linz. Mauthausen was established to exploit nearby stone quarries; it was classified by the SS as a camp of utmost severity. The prisoners included Italian, French, Yugoslavian, and Spanish political prisoners; Jews from Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands (1941); Gypsies from Austria (1938-40); nearly 30,000 Polish prisoners; and thousands of Soviet prisoners of war. The total number of prisoners who passed through Mauthausen is about 200,000, of whom 119,000 perished, including 38,000 Jews. Mauthausen was liberated by the U.S. Army on May 5, 1945.
A labor camp for men in Northern Austria established in August, 1938, where almost 100,000 Jews and prisoners of other nationalities were forced to work under the most brutal conditions and tortured to death, until the U.S. Army liberated it in May, 1945.
Camp in Austria that killed hundreds of thousands with a program of "extermination through labor."
Located near Linz, Austria, this was a notorious concentration and slave labor camp. It was known for the cruelty of its guards and the debilitating hard labor in its quarry.
Concentration and labor camp located in Austria. Although not designated as a death camp, hundreds of thousands of Jews and non-Jews were killed there in the Nazi program of "extermination through labor."
Concentration camp in Linz, Austria.
Concentration camp for men near Linz in upper Austria, opened in August, 1938. Many political prisoners were held at Mauthausen and its numerous sub camps. Classified by the SS as one of the two harshest concentration camps, many prisoners were killed there by being pushed from 300 foot cliffs into stone quarries.
A camp for men, opened in August 1938, near Linz in northern Austria, Mauthausen was classified by the SS as a camp of utmost severity. Conditions there were brutal, even by concentration camp standards. Nearly 125,000 prisoners of various nationalities were either worked or tortured to death at the camp before liberating American troops arrived in May 1945.
A concentration camp located in Austria
Mauthausen is a small market town in Upper Austria. It is located at about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz, and has a population of 4,850 (2001).