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On 5 May 1945, prisoners awoke to find that the SS had deserted Ebensee and that only elderly Germans armed with rifles were guarding the camp. [7] Prisoners killed 52 camp functionaries who had collaborated with the SS to create the camp's hierarchy. [6]: 41 American troops of the 80th Infantry Division arrived at the camp on 6 May 1945 ...
The camp was officially opened on 25 May 1940, when the first prisoners and guards moved in. [16] [13] [8] The camp was directly adjacent to the road between Sankt Georgen an der Gusen and nearby Langenstein; [17] [10] former prisoners recalled Austrian children passing by on the way to school. Until the camp wall was completed, passerby had a ...
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Heinrich Himmler visiting Mauthausen in June 1941. Himmler is talking to Franz Ziereis, camp commandant, with Karl Wolff on the left and August Eigruber on the right.. On 9 August 1938, prisoners from Dachau concentration camp near Munich were sent to the town of Mauthausen in Austria, to begin building a new slave labour camp. [6]
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At least 3,000 prisoners died on the Gleiwitz route alone. [14] Approximately 9,000-15,000 prisoners in total died on death marches out of Auschwitz's camps, [16] [13] and those who did survive were then put on freight trains and shipped to other camps deeper in German held territory.