Inside Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria | Uncovering the Horrors of Nazi Atrocities
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2022
- On 8 August 1938, five months after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, the first inmates arrived at Mauthausen from Dachau concentration camp. The choice of location was primarily governed by the presence of granite quarries, as it was for the satellite camp at Gusen set up in 1940. The inmates were first put to work on the construction of the camp and were to provide the SS-owned company Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH with building materials for monumental and prestigious buildings in Nazi Germany.
The political function of the camp, the constant persecution, and detention of real or supposed political and ideological opponents took priority until 1943. Mauthausen and Gusen were for some time the only category III camps with the harshest conditions of confinement within the concentration camp system and one of the highest death rates in all of the concentration camps in the German Reich.
From 1942/43 - as in all concentration camps - the inmates were increasingly enlisted to work in the armaments industry. Numerous satellite camps were constructed as a result and the number of prisoners rose steeply. At the end of 1942, there were 14,000 inmates in Mauthausen, Gusen, and a few satellite camps. In March 1945 there were more than 84,000 in Mauthausen and its satellite camps.
From the second half of 1944 thousands of inmates were evacuated to Mauthausen, particularly from the concentration camps in the east. Moreover, in the spring of 1945, the satellite camps to the east of Mauthausen and the forced labor camps for Hungarian Jews were closed down and the prisoners were driven in death marches toward Mauthausen. This led to enormous overcrowding in Mauthausen and Gusen and in the remaining satellite camps at Ebensee, Steyr and Gunskirchen. Hunger and illness brought a marked increase in the death rate.
Most of those deported to Mauthausen came from
Poland, followed by citizens from the Soviet Union and Hungary. In addition, there were also large groups of German and Austrian, French, Italian, Yugoslav, and Spanish inmates. All told, the SS camp administration registered men, women, and children from more than 40 nations.
The large number of Jewish inmates from Hungary and Poland who arrived after May 1944 had the least chance of survival. Almost 190,000 people were deported to Mauthausen between the construction of the camp in August 1938 and its liberation by the US Army in May 1945.
Thousands of prisoners were beaten to death, shot, murdered by lethal injection, or frozen to death. At least 10,200 inmates were murdered in the gas chamber at the main camp, in Gusen, or at Hartheim Castle and in a gas van that traveled between Mauthausen and Gusen. Most inmates succumbed through mistreatment and being ruthlessly worked to death, while at the same time receiving scant food rations, clothing, and medical treatment. At least 90,000 inmates died at Mauthausen, Gusen, and the satellite camps, half of them in the last four months before the camps were liberated.
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I visited here in the eighties and found the experience very sobering. One of the things that struck me was as I was walking around I became aware that there were no birds flying around the camp. As I visited in summer there were swallows that would fly up to the outer walls and then turn back, I took photo's of the swallows doing that as I found it very strange.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I did not see any birds there, but if I saw a bird flying back and forth in that area, I would be scared and might hide. The whole area is scary, let alone seeing a bird behaving that way!
When I watched a documentary series about Auschwitz the other day, one of the survivors claimed that there were so much evil there, that God couldn't come there. I took that literally, and the behavior of the swallows near Mauthausen seem sensible and right, since it was a dreadful place, even those in other concentration camps would dread the slavery there and being worked to death in the quarries, carrying up to 75 pound heavy granite blocks up 180 steps, with next to no food, in the dead of winter, with no proper clothes, wooden shoes etc. then go down and get more, from sunrise to sunset, every day, week after week, month after month, until some sickness, or starvation led them to their death, with not even a grave to rest in.
Thank you for your visit to KZ NEVER Forget!! You help with the video!
I am glad you watched this video. Thank you!
I can feel the obscure and evil atrocities that took place there. It's interesting how, to a large extent, how our governments have continued these atrocities and justified these with legislation- cheers man and keep on sharing!
It was one of the saddest things I have ever seen. I read about it in history books, but when I was there, the actual place, I was too shocked to think. This part of history should never have happened. Thank you for watching the video and for your comment.
Very sad place in history. Going to this all by yourself must have been very eerie and scary. Up to 2000 people in barracks housed for 300. I can't imagine how horrible it was.
Yes, it is a very sad place in history that should never have happened. Thank you for watching.
Was at the horror show that is Mauthausen last Tuesday 7/11/23 unbelievable hard to believe I walked the same steps as Himmler 😡......
I can only imagine how haunting that experience must have been. It's important to remember and reflect on history to ensure it is never repeated. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the gravity of your visit.
Was at Mauthausen November '23 went on a taut from Vienna incredible tour ... Tour guide was incredible gave us unbelievable information throughout tour was humbled shocked and saddened by what I witnessed RIP 👃➕.
Beautiful video ❤️❤️ Happy Bonfire Night 💥
Thank you!
Thank you 😊
from FRANCE, très bonne visite,je suis content qu'un jeune s'interresse a ça ,merci beaucoup monsieur, MESSAGE OF NORMANDY
Merci beaucoup
I went here a number of years ago. The sense of evil I felt was palpable. I will nerve forget approaching the cremation ovens. They were glowing inside almost as if the ashes of the victims were still inside. As I looked inside the glowing was from small candles of remembrance placed inside the ovens. The sense of loss and sadness I felt was overpowering.
Thank you for sharing your experience. Visiting Mauthausen is very emotional and your words capture the deep sadness felt there.
Thank you for the tour. I hope I can visit that place in the future. How sad is human's history a lot of times. If I felt sad by the video, I can't image the feeling there. I hope this never happens again, and I hope one day we are also more respectful with animals. This is everyone's planet, not only ours
I found myself tearing up when I was there. Thank you for watching.
Both my brothers died there. My parents,grandmother of 91 year old in Auschwitz. I survived being in hiding. B.van Essen - Kok. Jeruzalem
E una vergogna hanno amodernizzato tutto sembra per coloro che vengono per la prima volta alcuni locali di una locanda
Did the mauthausen camp have a swimming pool too?
What a sweet and polite thing to ask. You must be a really kind person.
@elvenkind6072 Do you breathe and swallow at the same time while under water??you should.
@@tanjawesseling6283 Are you the Tanja Wesseling in New Zealand or Germany? I'll just call the police both places, for inciting suicide to random people online.
Not sure if you misunderstood my sarcasm, or if you are another Neo-Nazi, but I'm tired of people like you that think you can do whatever you want online.
@@tanjawesseling6283 Any particular reason why you want me to kill myself?
@@tanjawesseling6283 Do you want a visit from the police perhaps? I won't have problems finding out where and who you are. Any particular reason why you are telling me that I should drown myself? Because of my sarcastic reply to the OP? Are you a Neo-Nazi, that think it's nice of people to joke about swimming pools in former death camps?
You should substitute the text Nazi to GERMANS…