Mauthausen Concentration Camp Today: Complete tour

In September 2017 I visited the Mauthausen Memorial (former Mauthausen Concentration Camp) near Linz, Austria. I’ve mixed my video footage with the official Audio guide in English.

https://war-documentary.info/mauthaus...

Mauthausen, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, located near the village of Mauthausen, 20 km east of Linz, Austria. It was established in April 1938, shortly after Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Starting as a satellite of Dachau, in Germany, it became an independent camp in the spring of 1939, operated by the SS (the Nazi paramilitary corps) and acquiring satellite camps of its own throughout Austria, all collectively called Mauthausen.

The camp provided slave labor to work previously abandoned stone quarries nearby. About 200,000 prisoners passed through Mauthausen. Some 120,000 of them died, mainly from starvation, disease, and the hardships of labor. About 38,000 of the dead were Jews. Mauthausen also had a gas chamber and gas vans, and from April 1944 to January 1945 the gas chambers at nearby Hartheim Castle were also used to kill prisoners too weak to work or too “undesirable” to be kept alive. The SS fled Mauthausen shortly before American troops entered the camp on May 5, 1945.

My detailed material on this visit of the Mauthausen Memorial
https://war-documentary.info/mauthaus...

My blog about World War Two and WW2 sites
https://war-documentary.info/eng/