Mauthausen Concentration Camp: A Pictorial Tour

1  The road to the camp from the town of Mauthausen
2  Approach to the camp's entrance
3  Main entrance as it looks today, without the Nazi eagle
4  The assembly area, just inside the entrance
5  Commemorations of the camp's liberation near steps to main camp
6  Inscription at entrance to main compound: figures total about 115,000 persons known to have been killed at Mauthausen, including 34 Americans
7  The gas chamber.  Note the "shower" heads.
8  A memorial plaque on the gas chamber wall: "Max Fischler from Drohobycz murdered here by gas Sept. 3, 1944.  Unforgettable!"
9  The original crematory oven at Mauthausen
10  Table for dissection of murder victims as part of medical experiments, and for removal of gold from teeth
11  Newer ovens on opposite side of the gas chamber
12  Memorials to victims on wall of crematory room
13  Sculpture at entrance to main compound, near tabulation of victims
14  View, late in May, looking NW from main compound toward the quarry which was the reason for the camp's being located here
15  The Jewish memorial, one of 30 or more between the camp and the quarry
16  Memorial of the former East Germany ("GDR")
17  The quarry.  Prisoners were pushed over the cliff on the right, leading the camp staff to refer to these as the "parachutist's rocks"
18  Agnus Dei, The University of Montana Chamber Chorale, Maria Enzersdorf Kirche, Vienna, May 24, 2003