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G­5 Displaced Persons Branch, was designated “to render all possible
assistance.” (Box 50, location: 290/07/21/07).
• File 2711/7 “Countries­Germany­Concentration Camps”: A list of
German detention centers for political prisoners submitted by the
Belgian Commission on Repatriation, April 13, 1945, including
Mauthausen and other Austrian locales; a SHAEF G­5 “Report Field Trip
by Wing Commander Dehn and Captain Clarke,” June 6, 1945, on con­
ditions of released French nationals in the British and American zones
of occupation (including Mauthausen, sub­camps Gusen, Ebensee, and
Linz, and the hospital in Bad Ischl); and a SHAEF G­5 “Report on
Concentration Camps,” June 29, 1945, listing concentration camps and
other installations found to contain political prisoners, the population
of camps at the time they were uncovered, and containing the latest
report on remaining populations (including Mauthausen, sub­camps
Gusen, Ebensee, and Gunskirchen, and other locales in Austria. (Box 50,
location: 290/07/21/07)
• File 2711/7.2 “12 AG–Mauthausen Camps”: Correspondence, memo­
randums, cable traffic, and reports, April 21–June 26, 1945, on the lib­
eration of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp complex. This impor­
tant file includes interrogation and other reports by Mauthausen inmates
subject to early release, SHAEF directives regarding troop movements
in the vicinity of Mauthausen on the eve of liberation, and a list provid­
ed by Combat Command B, 11th Armored Division, May 11, 1945, of
prominent personnel liberated from Mauthausen. Among the most sig­
nificant items are Memoranda Nos. 1–2 filed by Lt. Col. M.J. Proudfoot
of the SHAEF Displaced Persons Branch on conditions at Mauthausen
and Gusen at the time of liberation and as of June 3, 1945, and a “Report
by French Lt. Col. P.G. de Saint Gast Rendered on Returning From A
Mission At Mauthausen Concentration Camp, 12–25 May 1945.” Lt. Col.
Saint Gast was an inmate at Mauthausen for 18 months prior to his ear­
ly release on April 22, 1945. At the request of SHAEF, he returned to
Mauthausen on May 12 to assist in interrogations of SS men held at the
camp and in documenting war crimes. His report primarily deals with
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