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United States. National Archives and Records
Administration.
The Mauthausen Concentration Camp Complex : World
War II and postwar records / compiled by Amy Schmidt and
Gudrun Loehrer.— Washington, D.C. : National Archives
and Records Administration, 2008.
p. ; cm.— (Reference information paper ; 115)
Includes index.
1. Mauthausen (Concentration camp)—History— Sources—
Bibliography—Catalogs. 2. United States. National
Archives and Records Administration—Catalogs.
3. World War, 1939—1945—Concentration camps—Austria—
Mauthausen— History—Sources—Bibliography—Catalogs.
I. Schmidt, Amy. II. Loehrer, Gudrun. III. United States.
National Archives and Records Administration.
Front cover: (Top, from left) Heinrich Himmler, at left, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner
(behind him) visit the Mauthausen camp, 1941. (USA Exhibit 904, RG 238)
A top­secret German teletype circular provides instructions for transport
of escaped and recaptured Allied POWs to Mauthausen for execution. (USA
Exhibit 246, RG 238)
A group of captured Yugoslav partisans after processing by Mauthausen’s
Political Department, circa 1943. (Mauthausen Trial, Prosecution Exhibit
153, Box 345, RG 549)
(Bottom) Mauthausen inmates welcome the U.S. Army’s 41st Cavalry
Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Armored Division, on May 5, 1945. Camp
Gusen was liberated the same day, making these sites the last of the large
German concentration camps to be liberated by advancing Allied forces.
(111­SC­206395)