This week we were taken to a concentration camp. I learned so much that I didn't know before. Mauthausen is about 30 minutes away from the university and was the central concentration camp in Austria. There were 50 other concentration camps in Austria but this was the main one and the biggest one at the time. It was a work camp instead of the other 11 types of camp. The people that went there had to work in the quarry or were sent to other places like factories in town to work. If they weren't healthy enough to work then they were killed because they were useless to the system. This camp was huge and it was on top of the hill and the whole thing is just so complex and it's crazy that someone actually
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