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nished medical services at Camp Gusen, May 9–June 15, 1945 (Box 409, location:
390/17/25/07); the 59th Field Hospital took over from the 130th and 131st
Evacuation Hospitals on June 15,establishing and supervising three hospital units
to provide medical care for displaced persons remaining in the vicinity of
Mauthausen and Gusen I and to prepare as many patients as possible for rapid
repatriation (Box 413,location: 390/17/26/01).The evacuation hospitals were sup­
ported by the 610th Medical Clearing Company,which arrived at the Mauthausen
main camp on May 12 and remained until June 20. The company’s June 30, 1945,
periodic report (Box 371, location: 390/17/25/01) provides a detailed physical
description of the camp, health conditions, medical facilities, and treatments.
Annual reports of the 139th Evacuation Hospital (Box 409) and the 30th Field
Hospital (Box 412, location: 390/17/25/07) document conditions at the
Mauthausen sub­camp Ebensee and treatment of survivors from May 9 through
June 23, when the last patients were evacuated to a civilian hospital in Bad Ischl.
III.11 Records of the U.S.A. Typhus Commission, 1942–1946, Geographic
Records, 1943–1946 (Entry 343­D)
These geographic records are arranged alphabetically by country name. The
file for Austria (Box 13, location: 390/18/25/07) includes an 11th Armored
Division sanitation report for Mauthausen, May 8–25, 1945; a June 9, 1945,
survey of typhus fever at Mauthausen and the Gunskirchen Camp near Wels,
Austria; policy recommendations for treatment procedures; and an August 9,
1945, Typhus Commission statistical report on the typhus outbreak in Wels.
RECORD GROUP 153, RECORDS OF THE OFFICE
OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL (ARMY)
III.12 The Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG), War Crimes Branch,
was established in October 1944 to coordinate U.S. activities with respect to
investigation and prosecution of war crimes and criminals. Records relat­
ing to World War II include case files and dossiers for the 489 war crimes
trials in Europe tried by U.S. Army courts.
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