An album of photographs from the Mauthausen concentration camp

An album of photographs from the Mauthausen concentration camp

An album containing 47 [printed] photographs from the Konzentrationslager Mauthausen concentration camp, some taken from Nazi sources during the years of operation of the camp, and some were taken by American forces in the month in which the camp was released. E. VALLEY Publishing, Paris.

Among the photographs: prisoners during forced labor for laying railways, the quarry on the mountain where the prisoners worked, Heinrich Himmler visiting the camp, masses of people arriving at the camp, daily order, bodies of prisoners whose killed during forced labor, Moslemans without clothing in daily order, the crematorium, The gas chambers, the prison facilities, the experimental table, a photograph of Franz Zirais - the camp commander during all his years of activity - (During the American forces' takeover of the camp, Ziereis fled with his wife on May 3, 1945. He tried to hide in his hunting lodge on the Pyhrn mountain in Upper Austria, where he was discovered and arrested by an American army unit, shot three times in the stomach While trying to escape and was brought to an American military hospital established in the former concentration camp of Gusen, where he died Shortly afterwards, his body was hanged on the fence of the camp by one of the former prisoners). Also included photographs from the camp's liberation period by US forces: US soldiers entering the camp alongside crowds of cheering prisoners,the survivors, dead bodies killed by Nazis as the US troops approached, breaking the Nazi eagle monument, and more.

The Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria was used mainly for forced labor. It was established in 1938 near the town of Mauthausen, and at its beginning mainly imprisoned opponents of Nazism. Beginning in 1941, the trend changed and the Nazis began to imprison many Jews, mainly from the Czech and Dutch communities. 38,000 Jews were murdered in the camp, most of whom died from forced labor. The camp was liberated in May 1945 and was one of the last to be liberated by the United States Army. Inmates from the camp liquidated about 30 remaining SS men; Lynch in a similar number of SS men was made in Gusen II.

Album in format: 17x11 cm. Introduction with important data about the camp in five languages: English, Italian, French, German and Russian. Very good condition.