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Left: Mauthausen Comm<strong>and</strong>ant Franz Ziereis (center) at Mauthausen. Ziereis was shot by American<br />

soldiers on May 22, 1945, while trying to escape. He died the following day at the 131st Evacuation<br />

Hospital at Gusen, Austria. (War Crimes Cases Tried, Box 334, RG 549) Above: In his deathbed confes­<br />

sion (photostatic copy of the typed German­language original shown), Ziereis described murder instal­<br />

lations <strong>and</strong> practices at Mauthausen, including the use of gas chamber <strong>and</strong> gas­car, injections, medical<br />

experiments, <strong>and</strong> torture; <strong>and</strong> practices at Hartheim Castle, located at Alkoven, Austria, where prison­<br />

ers were killed by injection. (Evidence File D­626, Box 24, RG 238)<br />

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