the front of the camp

Mauthausen

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September 30th 2005
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 ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more