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Mauthausen Grate into Hell
Grate over the Krematorium in the roll call square.
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Mauthausen Concentration Camp Introduction
Mauthausen Introduction
Mauthausen Map - Home | Introduction | Credits On August 8, 1938, just a few weeks after the Nazi occupation of Austria, prisoners from the Dachau, concentration camp near Munich, were transferred to...
Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Mauthausen memorial – Iron Spider
I don’t remember just where in the camp I found this but it seems to reveal just what it was that walking into a this camp did to me.
It is as if my heart...
Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Mauthausen Disposing of the Murdered (1)
The smaller of the two Mauthausen ovens and its accompanying smoke stack.
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Mauthausen Krematorium – The Disposing of the Murdered (2)
Double furnace in the basement. This photo, taken just after liberation, is of prisoners showing the same furnace to liberators. < Mauthausen Disposing of the Murdered | Mauthausen Experiments> Mauthausen Map – Home | Introduction | Credits
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Mauthausen Gate Latch
It is always surprising to see the degree of care and meticulous attention to detail, even elegance, the SS exacted in their goal of surrounding, punishing and killing innocent people.
This latch is on the...
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Concentration camp of Mauthausen Photo List
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Mauthausen Photos #
Title
Description 1
The Stairs of Death
Rock staircase at the quarry. 2
The Rock Quarry
The rock quarry. 3
The Parachute Jump
Top of the rock quarry. 4
Then and Now: Wiener Graben
The rock quarry. 5
Ghosts
Rocks at the quarry. 6
The...
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Mauthausen Little Ironies – McDonald’s on the way
Prisoners were marched along this route through the town of Mauthausen from the train depot to the camp of the same name.
Often children would stand at the side of the road, jeer and thrown...

