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⚰️ Mauthausen Concentration Camp

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⚰️ Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Nazi labor and extermination camp, Upper Austria, 1938–1945


🕐 2 min read · Updated 2 Apr 2026 at 16:51
📋 Fast Facts
  • Established 1938; liberated May 1945 by U.S. Army
  • Approximately 190,000 prisoners held across main camp and ~100 subcamps
  • At least 90,000 deaths from forced labor, starvation, disease, and executions
  • Now operates as a memorial museum and UNESCO-recognized site

Mauthausen Concentration Camp, located near a granite quarry in Upper Austria, was one of Nazi Germany's largest and ...

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