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camps in the European Theater of Operations are widely scattered through out the National Archives microfilm collection of World War II captured German records. These are described in Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, VA, Nos. 1–98, and in the volume Captured German and Related Records: A National Archives Conference (1974). As the nation’s record keeper, NARA safeguards records of all three branches of the Federal Government. NARA meets an almost unlimited range of information needs, ensuring access to records on which both the credibility of government and the accuracy of history depend. We welcome any comments you may have on the information products and services NARA provides. Use the “contact us” link on www.archives.gov. Allen Weinstein Archivist of the United States viii
part i Introduction Background I.1 The National Archives at College Park, Maryland, is a major repository of records pertaining to several World War II Nazi concentration camps: Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenberg, Nordhausen, and Mauthausen. This reference information paper focuses on one of these, the Mauthausen camp complex, describing materials found in over 95 series of textual, still picture, motion picture, and cartographic records. Among these are original camp records; records produced by U.S. Government agencies, both military and civilian; and captured German records, including evidence files assembled for war crimes proceedings. Appendixes describe related collections in the custody of the International Tracing Service and direct researchers to other U.S. and European repositories of Mauthausen materials. I.2 The Mauthausen main camp was constructed in 1938 at a site near the Upper Austrian town of Mauthausen, roughly 20 kilometers east of Linz. A second, nearby camp, known as Gusen I opened in 1940. These two“main camps” were designated “Category III” or extermination camps, designed to eliminate enemies of the German Reich through a combination of overwork, starvation, and violence. Both camps used inmates as slave labor in the granite quarries, the most notorious being the Wiener Graben quarry at Mauthausen. During World War II, the Mauthausen complex expanded into a “ring” of some 50 subcamps scattered throughout Austria, making it one of the largest and most profitable labor camp complexes in Germancontrolled Europe. Questions of 1
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Items cited as enclosures but missi
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1948). A subject index, located in
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Vol. XVI, pp. 75-76, date of testim
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police headquarters regarding the t
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USA 492-Two secret SIPO orders, dat
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tion of Jewish concentration camp i
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PS 494-Correspondence between the U
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NG 2710-An Oct. 13, 1941, memorandu
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NO 2429-Affidavit sworn by Gustav C
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graphic records include records of
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er and name (13 pages), and a list
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EAP 164a28/23: “KZEbensee T
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Reichswerke A.G.“Hermann Goering,
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Appendix P: Statistics on various n
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G5 Displaced Persons Branch, was
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• File 2912/1 “Statistical Repo
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RECORD GROUP 407, RECORDS OF THE AD
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Above: Liberated inmates at Mauthau
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small amount of material on the lib
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petitions for clemency, case review
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Left: Mauthausen Commandant Franz Z
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279. Petition for review of sentenc
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690. Petition for clemency by wife
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430. Exonerating statements submitt
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221. Petition for review of sentenc
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Vol. XIX 503. Correspondence from E
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796. Request for death certificate
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1140. Letter from Jan Makaalous to
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159. Petition for clemency by wife
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Box 18 Vol. LIX (Items numbered 1m-
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III.76 General Administrative Recor
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Folder 2 Trial transcript, Mar. 31-
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1, 1955, order of parole; 1957 orde
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Folders 8-9 Clemency petitions, pet
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Folder 2 Prosecution Exhibit: 1. St
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Folder 14 Review and Recommendation
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Box 282 Folder 8 (Note: records of
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Top: The General Military Governmen
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Heinrich Fitshok - Waffen SS privat
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Emil Mueller - Waffen SS master ser
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HQ, 3rd U.S. Army JAG Report of Inv
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19. Joint statement of M. Vichot an
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63. Statement of Lt. Col. Francis R
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96-98. Photographs of George Bachma
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178. Loading victims onto truck at
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Box 335 Folder 1 3rd U.S. Army “R
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Also included are the following ite
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6836 regarding possible war crimes
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Headquarters USDIC, U.S. Forces Aus
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Box 342 15. Mauthausen hospital ope
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tal, and a scene of the camp’s ev
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95. Johannes Bernard Grimm, Feb. 15
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146. Letter of defendant Otto Drabe
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Folder 1 1-2. Diagrams of camp depa
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34. Statement of Quirin Flaucher, f
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39. Accused Victor Zoller reading t
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Box 349 Clemency Petition Files, ar
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Josef Riegler (folder empty) Adolf
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Friedrich Felsch - Waffen SS privat
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11. Statement of Mrs. Paul Liebmann
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the subcamp at WienerNeudorf. (
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3. Medical report on defendant Stie
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Wilhelm Grill - Waffen SS sergeant,
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Folder 6 War crimes Modification Bo
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Box 368 Folder 1 Petition for parol
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Schifftler and Kraus were acquitted
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36. Letter of complaint against def
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Alwin Schiller - Waffen SS sergeant
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13. Extract of testimony of Bolesla
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4. Statement of Josef Spath, June 3
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Folder 6 Trial Transcript, July 3,
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Folder 5 War Crimes Modification Bo
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Folder 7 War Crimes Boards of Revie
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5. Statement of Dusan Teodorovic (w
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Folder 3 Clemency petitions for Leo
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2. Statement of Georg Weissmann, Ap
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Folder 8 Prosecution Exhibits: 1-5.
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Folder 2 Prosecution Exhibits: 1-1A
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Folder 2 Prosecution Exhibits: 1-1H
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15. Statement of Jacob Wagner on be
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Box 385 Folder 1 Charge Sheet, deta
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Folders 5-6 Reviews of the case of
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Albert Zeitraeg - Waffen SS sergean
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Box 390 Folder 1 Parole application
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3A-G. Personal questionnaires (Frag
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of the Waffen SS or inmates associa
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28. Statement of Rainer Weber, Nov.
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Folder 6 includes a handdrawn pla
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Folder 2 Prosecution Exhibits: 1A-G
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Folder 8 Clemency petitions for Qui
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17. Statement of Walter Blume, June
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Domingo’s sentence of 2 years was
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Max Koerner - SS sergeant, guard an
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Folder 3 Defense Exhibits: 1. State
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Adolf Berg (neither served nor trie
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Folder 6 10. Certificate of politic
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camps and thereby, on the principle
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Folders 3-7 Petitions for review an
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2. Statement of Karl Albrecht, Oct.
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Folder 5 Trial transcript, Aug. 7-8
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Box 412 Folder 1 War Crimes Modific
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Folder 4 Defense Exhibits: 1. Penci
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Folder 3 Prosecution Exhibits: 1-3.
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8. Statement of Andreas Canko, July
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Folder 2 War Crimes Modification Bo
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4. Excerpt from Mauthausen death bo
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Court. The case concerned three def
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filed in RG 153, War Crimes Branch
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Note: Prosecution exhibits 5-8, mis
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eviews (1948); clemency petitions;
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Folders 9-12 Order of review and ex
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Accused Karl Wiedhofer was a capo a
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Box 424 Folder 12 Trial transcript,
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ETO Case No. 000519: Investigat
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Castle Hartheim, in Alkoven, near L
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X13 Johan (or Jochen) Becker (mar
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at Nuremberg. All other executee fi
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Box 73: Fritz Schallenberg Box 77:
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ject, branch of military service, m
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executees missing from this series
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treated with insecticide powder (fo
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Theater of Operations as well as th
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awaiting a refugee train, and refug
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number and bar code number. Finding
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part vii National Archives Microfil
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liquidating the feebleminded and co
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A3343, Series SSO, includes personn
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Eisenhoefer, Heinrich—SSOberstu
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Kiesewetter, Dr. Hermann—SSHaup
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Ruopp, Dr. Karl—SSUntersturmfü
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ecords mainly in the custody of the
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Constanz to various destinations, m
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Mayer, Josef Sigmund, Thomas Miessn
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Latzel, Josef Obermeier, Alois Pfaf
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000-50-5-21 Brandt, Olf Lothalier,
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000-50-5-31 Glas, Karl Kirchner, Ku
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000-Mauthausen-15 Schallenberg, Fri
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control of an International Commiss
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Arrivals - Mauthausen 42. Aug. 4, 1
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List of Released German Prisoners 7
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Registrar’s Office Mauthausen II,
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Lists of Victims According to Natio
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Volume I: Concentration Camp Record
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Austria Archives and Research Insti
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Upper Austria Oberösterreichische
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Israel Yad Vashem POB 3477 91034 Je
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SURVIVORS’ AND OTHER RELATED ORGA
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Verein Ehemalige Russische Mauthaus
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Bernhardt, TheoOtto, III.78 boxes
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European Place Name Index, III.13 E
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Hartheim Castle, I.9, I.10, III.14,
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Kirschmann, August, III.78 boxes 40
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Milos, Dr. Stransky, III.25 Miroff,
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Prisoner exchanges negotiations, I.
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Sturm, Hermann, III.78 boxes 418-41
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U.S. v. Karl Fleischer, III.78 box
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Vaessen, Heinz Martin, III.78 boxes
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Cemetery built by the U.S. Army for
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