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as part of the Allied Control Council. On October 1, 1945, USGCC became
Office of Military Government for Germany, U.S. Element (OMGUS).
III.46 General Correspondence, 1944–1945
Two reports pertaining to Mauthausen, signed by Col.Allen B. Mitchell, Chief
USGCC Legal Division, Prisons Branch, are filed under War Department deci­
mal filing number 254 (Detention and Internment Camps). (See box 8, location:
390/40/17/02). A June 9, 1945, “Report on Buchenwald and Mauthausen
Concentration Camps,” describes the visit of Col. Mitchell’s investigative team to
the Mauthausen Main Camp on May 17–18, 1945, and the location of missing
inmate personnel cards for all camps within the Mauthausen complex.A substan­
tially larger June 14 report,“Review of Activities, TD First and Third Armies, 27
April –1 June 1945,” provides a chronology of events surrounding the liberation
of Buchenwald and Mauthausen.Sections 16 through 33 describe activities of Col.
Mitchell’s team (mainly the completion of identification cards by surviving
inmates) at Mauthausen, Gusen, and Ebensee as well as at camps in the vicinity
of Linz and Neubau, Austria. The following items are appended to the report:
Appendix K: Sample of a Provisional Identification Card for Civilian
Internees at Mauthausen
Appendix L: A translation of codes used on personnel cards at Maut­
hausen provided by the camp’s German Committee
Appendix M: Three reports provided by Mauthausen inmateWolfgang Sanger
(a former manager of the concern A.E.G. Berlin, who worked as a secretary
in the camp’s “office for drafting prisoners for work”) pertaining to forced
labor at Mauthausen,the stopping of dismissals of prisoners,and firms used
by the SS to employ inmates at Mauthausen and its subcamps
Appendix N: Copy of an Intelligence Report by the 511th CIC Detachment,
dated May 30, 1945. Entitled“A 12 Year Old Nazi,”it describes the appre­
hension and interrogation of Siegfried Ziereis, the son of Franz Ziereis,
Commandant of Mauthausen
Appendix O: Translation of a statement made by Dr. A. Uhsler describing
“Action Bullet” (Kugel), the execution of prisoners of war at Mauthausen
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