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Inside Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria | Uncovering the Horrors of Nazi Atrocities

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. ✅ You might want to watch some of these other videos: ✔️ Ebensee Concentration Camp:    • A Tour of Ebensee Concentration Camp Memor...   ✔️ Dachau Concentration Camp:    • A Tour of Dachau Concentration Camp in Dac...   ✔️ The Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg:    • The Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg ...   ✔️ Nuremberg Trials Courtroom Tour:    • Nuremberg Trials Courtroom Tour - Nurember...   ✅ You might also want to watch some of my other videos of Austria: ✔️🇦🇹 Austria Travel Videos    • Austria   ✔️ 🇩🇪 Germany Travel Videos    • Germany   Music in this video: "Resolution" by Wayne Jones "Voices " by Patrick Patrikios "So Far Away" by Riot "Glimpsing Infinity" by Asher Fulero "Lament Of The Ancients" by Asher Fulero "Whole Tone Limbo" by Godmode "Under The Rug" by Density & Time "Faultlines" by Asher Fulero ✅ I am the owner of all video content on this channel. Filmed with a GoPro camera. ✅ Do you need gear for your travel adventures? Visit my Amazon e-store for ideas: https://www.amazon.com/shop/wandererbell ✅ Do you need some good music for your social media content? I use and recommend Epidemic Sound. You can get a free 30-day trial by clicking here: https://share.epidemicsound.com/po8d3b ✅ Find me on Instagram:   / wandererbell   ✅ Check out my blog: https://www.wandererbell.com/ **Disclaimer: I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to www.amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn revenue from qualifying purchases. #Austria #salzkammergut #linz