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Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz, Austria, was the center of an extensive Nazi camp and forced-labor system. About 190,000 people were imprisoned across the complex, and memorial authorities estimate that at least 90,000 died. More than 11,000 deaths occurred in April 1945 alone. The U.S. Army reached Mauthausen and Gusen on May 5, 1945.

Period photographs show prisoners assembled on the Appellplatz, the Todesstiege stone stairway, the Wiener Graben quarry, the gas chamber and the crematorium. Other scenes record cheering survivors greeting American forces and Austrian civilians digging mass graves on the former SS soccer field under U.S. guard. The collection also includes post-liberation memorial markers, a Soviet honor guard, scenes from the Lenzing and Melk subcamps, a postwar displaced-persons camp in Linz, a 1946 trial and modern views of the Mauthausen memorial site.

Also covered here: Ebensee Concentration Camp in Austria: Liberation, May 6, 1945 · WWII - Holocaust - Gusen Camp · WWII - Holocaust - Gunskirchen Camp

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[BeatleMorgan]

good post
its really sad, some of them look really fragile.
it makes me wonder how the germans stood doing that. I'd feel like a big asshole.

[Magenta]

Originally Posted by BeatleMorgan ↗

good post
its really sad, some of them look really fragile.
it makes me wonder how the germans stood doing that. I'd feel like a big asshole.

Kinda happened all over the place though - the Japanese camp prisoners were in a right state too... And Eisenhower's camps weren't exactly the Hilton... Great pics Para!

[Magenta]

Footage shot by allied forces while liberating the camps

[Magenta]

Mauthausen today:

[güttsfükk]

pix you took? :)

wish they preserved the film better from liberation

[Magenta]

Originally Posted by parasyte ↗

pix you took? :)

Pfft!! You're making it sound like I can use a camera safely!! Nope, they aint mine. But my job for the weekend is to get mine sorted out. Then you can laugh and go "why the fuck did you take a picture of a wasp on the ground when you're stood in front of a gas chamber?" And my response will be "until it's been proved it's a gas chamber the wasp is also quite interesting" Some are okay actually - I'll get on with it next couple of days.

[BeatleMorgan]

those are nice pictures.
it looks so abandoned, but then you think of what happened there....

[LCS]

My Great-grandfather was there