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HQ, 3rd U.S. Army JAG Report of Investigation of Alleged War Crimes,
July 18, 1945, consisting of cover sheet and interrogation transcripts for
14 suspected perpetrators and other witnesses to war crimes at
Mauthausen and Gusen
Folder 2
Miscellaneous reports pertaining to the investigation of the Dawes Case
submitted by USFA War Crimes Investigating Team 6836 (Salzburg),
Office of Strategic Services and War Crimes Office, Washington, and
USFA interrogations of witnesses and accused. Some are duplicates of
those cited in folder 1, above.
Folders 3–4
Depositions sworn by French nationals, former camp inmates, regarding war
crimes witnessed at Mauthausen and its sub­camps. In the French language,
submitted by the French Ministry of Justice, Paris (Note: A signed deposition
of Francois Boix is located in Folder 4 along with 11 small photographs showing
Mauthausen Commandant Ziereis and other SS camp personnel.)
Folder 5
U.S. 3rd Army “Report on Investigation of Alleged War Crimes,” June 17,
1945.This investigation was conducted by Maj.Eugene S.Cohen of the 514th
Quartermaster Corps at the Mauthausen, Gusen, and Ebensee camps from
May 6 to 15, 1945. This unsigned copy of the original “Cohen Report”
includes a seven­page report by Cohen and 213 exhibits chiefly consisting of
individual inmate testimony (English­language translations of original state­
ments only) and U.S. Signal Corps photographs (4 by 5 in., b&w) taken after
liberation of the camps. Exhibit 201 is a hand­drawn map showing the vari­
ous branches of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp System. Some origi­
nal photographic exhibits have been removed from the file, as noted in the
list below. (The original “Cohen Report” is located in Record Group 238 and
described in section III.32 as USA Prosecution Exhibit 249. The original report
is also incomplete, including only exhibits 1–28. However it does include some
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