Tag: Mauthausen-Gusen

Gallows and Cemetery at Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp

25 January, 2012 (08:05) | East Carolina Manuscript Collection, photographs | By: Maury York

Source: Alvin Mewborn Papers (Manuscript Collection #1159) Staff Person: Maury York Description: Between 1940 and 1945, Nazi Germany developed a large complex of concentration camps in the vicinity of Mauthausen and Gusen in Austria. Thousands of inmates, many considered to be political enemies of the Third Reich, were subjected to harsh labor in the camps. [...]