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Mauthausen Concentration Camp

Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria - 2022 Danube River cruise. Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp next to the town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further sub camps located throughout Austria and southern Germany. Construction of the prison started in 1938 using German and Austrian prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp for the purpose of working previously abandoned granite quarries to provide building materials for monuments and building in Germany. Later in the war the prisoners were primarily used as forced laborers in the arms industry and Mauthausen became more of an administrative center where prisoners were sent for processing before being sent to the sub camps and the sick and weak were sent there to die. Around 190,000 people were imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and its sub camps during the war and at least 90,000 died.
The outer walls of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
The outer walls of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
Entrance to the SS Guard Courtyard and garages, Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
The outer walls and entrance to the SS Guard Courtyard and garages, Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
The Wiener Graben quarry and the “Stairs of Death” where innumerable inmates were worked to death by the German SS, Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
The main administrative entrance to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria. This gate was the only entrance to the detention camp where the concentration…
Administration buildings at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
The Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
The Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
The cellar of the Laundry barracks. Showers and a disinfection room for cleaning prisoners during their entry into the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
The cellar of the Laundry barracks. Showers and a disinfection room for cleaning prisoners during their entry into the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
Part of the heating system in the cellar of the Laundry barracks. Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
Prisoner barracks, Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
Interior of one of the prisoner barracks, Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
Interior of one of the prisoner barracks. This area would have been crammed with bunk beds where prisoners had to share beds or sleep on the floor. Mauthausen…
An old photograph of the interior of one of the prisoner barracks. The time allotted for sleeping was often no longer than six hours and the prisoners had to…
A latrine in one of the prisoner barracks. There were no partitions in the room to denying any privacy to the prisoners. Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
One of three crematoriums in the cellar of the infirmary. The corpses of concentration camp inmates were incinerated. Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria
The gas chamber in the cellar between the infirmary and the camp prison. Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria