The Austrian Train system (called OBB) has a deal going through the month of March, were students can by train tickets to travel on Saturdays. You can go anywhere in the country all day long for only 11 euro. This is a great deal, and we more than utilized our 11 euro, as we were on almost 10 different trains on Saturday! While Austria is very beautiful, it also is part of the dark history along with Germany during the Second World War, as it was a part of Hitlers government. In the town of Mauthausen, in Upper Austria near Linz, the concentration camp was built in order to imprison not only Jewish communities, but also people who went against governments rule. Many people from Mauthausen came from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and areas in Austria. More
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