Mauthausen

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 590 words | Copyright

Mauthausen was a concentration camp near Linz in Austria. It also had 60 sub-camps. The main camp was opened in August 1938 and housed Jews from all over Europe. Figures vary but out of the 206,000 incarcerated there at various times 71,000 are said to have perished, either from overwork in the stone quarries and the armaments industries, or from starvation and disease, and it was the destination of all those who fell victim to the Bullet Decree. When the Americans liberated the camp on 5 May 1945 they found a communal grave containing nearly 10,000 bodies. See also Final Solution.

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