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Mauthausen Concentration Camp (known from the summer of 1940 as Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp) grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that were built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the city of Linz.

Initially a single camp at Mauthausen, it expanded over time to become one of the largest labour camp complexes in German-controlled Europe. Apart from the four main sub-camps at Mauthausen and nearby Gusen, more than 50 sub-camps, located throughout Austria and southern Germany, used the inmates as slave labour. Several subordinate camps of the KZ Mauthausen complex included quarries, munitions factories, mines, arms factories and Me 262 fighter-plane assembly plants.

In January 1945, the camps, directed from the central office in Mauthausen, contained roughly 85,000 inmates. The death toll remains unknown, although most sources place it between 122,766 and 320,000 for the entire complex. The camps formed one of the first massive concentration camp complexes in Nazi Germany, and were the last ones to be liberated by the Western Allies or the Soviet Union. The two main camps, Mauthausen and Gusen I, were also the only two camps in the whole of Europe to be labelled as "Grade III" camps, which meant that they were intended to be the toughest camps for the "Incorrigible Political Enemies of the Reich". Unlike many other concentration camps, intended for all categories of prisoners, Mauthausen was mostly used for extermination through labour of the intelligentsia, who were educated people and members of the higher social classes in countries subjugated by Germany during World War II.

some pix below are listed to Linz or Melk concentration camps, those are sub camps of Mauthausen

you can see other sub camp picture collections at these links
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...ee-camp-15231/
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...en-camp-17080/
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...en-camp-17081/

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more pix

[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