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original camp records (entry books, death books, administrative correspon­
dence, and photographs) as well as sworn testimony of hundreds of witness­
es, mainly camp survivors. U.S. v. Karl Brandt et al. (the first of the“Subsequent
Trials,” also referred to as the “Medical Case” or the “Doctors’ Trial”) brought
prosecution against SS Oberfuehrer Viktor Brack for his role in mass exter­
minations at Hartheim Castle, a euthanasia center associated with Mauthausen.
U.S. v. Oswald Pohl et al. (Case IV) brought to trial 19 leading officers of the
SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (SS Wirtschafts und Verwaltun­
gshauptamt) charged with the criminal exploitation of forced labor at
Mauthausen and other SS­run concentration camps.
I.10 Records of the 61 trials associated with the Mauthausen ring are locat­
ed in two record groups: Records of the Office the Judge Advocate General
(Army), RG 153, and Records of United States Army, Europe (USAREUR), RG
549. Records of the Judge Advocate Division, War Crimes Branch, USAREUR,
include pretrial investigative records, trial transcripts, prosecution and defense
exhibits, statements of sentences, clemency petition files, and records of case
review and sentence modification boards. Trial exhibits include original
Mauthausen hospital and death registers and photographs as well as photostat­
ic copies of original records presented at the Nuremberg trials. Prisoner person­
nel files are arranged in three series: parolee case files, executee files, and files for
released inmates. A separate series of “cases not tried” includes 12 files pertain­
ing to Mauthausen sites. The most significant is an investigative report on war
crimes committed at Hartheim Castle, with photographs and witness state­
ments. RG 153 includes duplicate copies of war crimes case files and, in a sep­
arate series, 33 lists of Mauthausen victims, arranged by nationality, compiled
by the U.S. Third Army from original camp sources.
Nontextual Records
I.11 Parts IV through VII of this RIP describe nontextual Mauthausen materi­
als. Most still pictures and motion picture footage were shot by the U.S. Army
Signal Corps at the time of liberation and in the weeks immediately following.
Subjects include liberation scenes, camp sites, atrocities, victims and survivors,
treatment at evacuation hospitals, and repatriation. Cartographic records con­
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