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MAUTHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP


In the early 1990’s. Michael Newman started visiting the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen, where his father George had been a prisoner.  George Neuman died in 1985, just before his 68th birthday.
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​"As I looked around the camp I couldn’t understand how people in the neighbourhood could claim not to have been aware of what was going on in the camp. I think that they preferred not to know."       - Michael Newman
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Mauthausen Railway Station during my visit to the camp in 2012

Among BEAUTIFUL rolling hills, a place of sheer brutality
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Mauthausen is situated among rolling hills by the Danube River, surrounded by small villages. It was originally the Wienergraben quarry where rocks were mined for construction projects. After it was taken over the by SS, prisoners, mostly Jews and Russian prisoners of war, were forced under brutal conditions to work in the quarry. There were also gas chambers and crematoria built to exterminate those prisoners who didn’t die from forced labour and starvation. Today Mauthausen is a memorial to the victims of the brutality of the Nazis and to remind people of the evil that took place there during the war. ​
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Mauthausen among rolling hills, surrounded by farm houses. How could the residents not know what was going on in their backyardt?
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The barbed wire fence around the camp’s perimeter, described in Chapter 34 of Between These Walls.
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The camp walls, motor pool and parade square
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Another shot of Mauthausen Camp walls
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One of the camp’s gas chambers

after liberation 

Memorials to the heroes and victims of Mauthausen
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Memorial to the Hungarian victims of the Nazis at Mauthausen
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Memorial at Mauthausen to the victims of the Nazis killed at the camp
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Plaque indicating the location of the Command Staff building
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First day covers commemorating the liberation of Mauthausen
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The steps that the prisoners were forced to climb as they carried large rocks on their backs from the quarry
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Mass graves of Russian prisoner of war and Jewish prisoners on the grounds of the camp
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Mauthausen Camp walls
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Inside one of the barracks where the prisoners slept
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The crematorium ovens
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Plaque commemorating the execution by the Nazis of 40 Dutch and British special agents at the camp
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Another memorial to the victims at Mauthausen
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A memorial plaque to the soldiers of the US 3rd. Army who liberated the camp
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Postcard commemorating the 60th. anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen
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