Gusen Concentration Camp

Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, 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 kilometres from Mauthausen, held …
Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, 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 kilometres from Mauthausen, held a significant proportion of prisoners within the camp complex, at times exceeding the number of prisoners at the Mauthausen main camp.
  • Location: Mauthausen, Upper Austria
  • Commandant: Albert Sauer · Franz Ziereis
  • Operational: 1938 – May 1945
  • Inmates: Political prisoners, Jews, 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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