Mauthausen concentration camp
Also known as Konzentrationslager Mauthausen, KZ Mauthausen, Mau.
Nazi concentration camp in Austria (1938–1945)
Key facts
- Location
- Mauthausen, Upper Austria
- Commandant
- Albert Sauer , Franz Ziereis
- Operational
- 1938 – May 1945
- Inmates
- Political prisoners, Jews, Poles, Soviet POWs
- Number of inmates
- 190,000
- Killed
- More than 90,000
- Liberated by
- United States Army , 3–6 May 1945
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- Bundesarchiv Bild 192-334, KZ Mauthausen, Garagenhofeinfahrt.jpg
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- Jessy Matador
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Appellplatz at the Mauthausen main camp Wiener Graben quarry in 2016, "Stairs of Death" towards the right 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 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany.
The three Gusen concentration camps in and around the village of St. Georgen/Gusen, just a few kilometers from Mauthausen, held a significant proportion of prisoners within the camp complex, at times exceeding the number of prisoners at the Mauthausen main camp.
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