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04-03-2009, 02:59 AM
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Mauthausen-Gusen Liberation and Mass Graves, Upper Austria, May 1945
U.S. troops liberated the Gusen concentration camp complex in Upper Austria on May 5, 1945. Built near Langenstein and St. Georgen an der Gusen as part of the Mauthausen camp system, Gusen held prisoners used as slave labor in stone quarries and armaments production. The first prisoners arrived in 1940. The Mauthausen Memorial says at least 71,000 people were deported to Gusen and more than half died there. More than 20,000 prisoners were freed by U.S. forces. Period photographs show Gusen I under construction around 1940 and the camp after liberation in May 1945. They document survivors, bodies outside the barracks and on carts, crematorium furnaces, and Austrian civilians digging and filling mass graves. Other scenes show a chaplain praying at an open grave, camp guards being made to crawl or exercise, and former prisoners demonstrating a punishment used by the SS. Additional photographs record American investigations and postwar proceedings involving a former prisoner who served as a camp doctor and men accused of murdering or mistreating prisoners.  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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05-16-2009, 10:30 PM
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Re: Mauthausen-Gusen Liberation and Mass Graves, Upper Austria, May 1945
I'm chasing your holocaust posts round like an idiot here!! You'll start getting sick of the "great post" line before too long!! But anyways, great post!!!  Seriously, loads of people forget about the lesser and sub camps - they seem to be overshadowed by Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, etc, so these posts are just fab!  |
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05-16-2009, 10:33 PM
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Re: Mauthausen-Gusen Liberation and Mass Graves, Upper Austria, May 1945
Why are there pictures of jugs of some kid of beverage in my post????! Can anyone else see them or is it just me?! Last time I checked I wasn't suffering from hallucinations... I din't put any pictures in my post!! They're Smackem's from the other thread!! Smackem - somehow without trying you're fucking my posts up!!!  |
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05-16-2009, 10:35 PM
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Re: Mauthausen-Gusen Liberation and Mass Graves, Upper Austria, May 1945
Right, they've gone now... I'm not being strange (makes a change I guess!) - there was pictures from another thread in my post!! Seriously! Either that or I'm smoking dodgy cigarettes...  |
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05-16-2009, 10:42 PM
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Re: Mauthausen-Gusen Liberation and Mass Graves, Upper Austria, May 1945
I thought they were yours at first (although I couldn't figure out why you'd be posting pictures of iced tea!) as I first saw them in one of your posts!! But someone just left a message on one of my medical threads asking me what was with the pictures of iced tea!! So they seem to be randomly turning up!! Very strange!!! |
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