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RECORD GROUP 549, RECORDS OF
UNITED STATES ARMY, EUROPE
War Crimes Branch, War Crimes Case Files (“Cases Tried”) 1945–1959, Case
000­50­5, U.S. v. Hans Altfuldisch et al.
Entry 1A, location: 290/59/05/04; see III.78 below.
Mauthausen Hospital Operation Register, August 1940–February 12, 1945.
The register is a handwritten volume giving inmate/patient number and
name; date, type and outcome of operation; and presiding physician.
(Prosecution Exhibit 15)
Death Ledger Kept by Mauthausen’s Political Department Recording
“Unnatural Deaths,” October 2, 1942–April 6, 1945. The ledger gives inmate
number and name, date and cause of death, name of guard involved, and
date a report of incident was sent to the SS Police Court in Vienna.
(Prosecution Exhibit 22)
Death Books of Gusen Concentration Camp, four handwritten volumes,
January 1, 1940–April 24, 1945. The volumes give inmate number and name, date
and place of birth,and date,time and cause of death.(Prosecution Exhibits 23–26)
II.3 Francois Boix Photographic Collection
Among the more unusual items found in the NARA Mauthausen records are
original camp photographs collected by the Spanish news photographer
Francois Boix. According to his postwar testimony, Boix was a veteran of the
Spanish Civil War, an antifascist who later attached himself to the French
Army. In June 1940, he was among approximately 8,000 Spaniards taken pris­
oner by the Germans in France and, in January 1941, transferred to
Mauthausen. Of this group, he estimated that no more than 1,600 survived
the war. Boix was designated a Spanish political refugee and assigned to work
in the “Identification Section” of Mauthausen’s Political Department where
he served as a clerk processing photographs taken by the camp’s Schutzstaffel
(SS) personnel. After the German defeat at Stalingrad in February 1943, Boix
recalled, an order from Berlin directed that all camp photographic film be
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