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the rapid disappearance of original documents from the camp due to
overlapping and conflicting jurisdictions of various investigative agen­
cies. A list of original camp records remaining in Mauthausen as of May
25, 1945, is included in his report. (Box 50, location: 290/07/21/07)
• File 2711/7.4 “SAARF”: Correspondence of the French Chief of Staff for
National Defense and SHAEF, G­5, April 16–May 1, 1945, regarding early
release negotiations, the dispatch by air of SAARF (Special Allied Airborne
Reconnaissance Force teams) and other emergency relief measures to be tak­
en to protect concentration camp inmates (including those at Mauthausen)
prior to and at the time of liberation. (Box 51, location: 290/07/21/07)
• File 2748/4 “General Reports Visits Col. Gray”: June 24, 1945, memoran­
dum for the Chief, SHAEF Displaced Persons Branch, of an inspection­
observation trip by Col. R. MacDonald Gray, who toured the 3rd Army area,
June 16–23, 1945. Colonel Gray reports the disposition of displaced per­
sons from camps in the vicinities of Linz, Steyr, Melk, Gmunden, Salzburg,
and Innsbruck, Austria, and from Mauthausen Concentration Camp as of
June 19–20, 1945. (Box 52, location: 290/07/21/07)
• File 2748/6“Visits of Maj.Proudfoot”: SHAEF G­5 Displaced Persons Branch
Memoranda Nos. 1–7 filed by Lt. Col. Proudfoot, June 7–13 as follows:
No. 1–Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria, June 7, 1945
No. 2–Concentration Camp at Gusen, Austria, June 8, 1945
No. 3–Concentration Camp at Ebensee, Austria, June 12, 1945
No. 4–Displaced Persons and Prisoner of War Transit Camp,
Hoersching Air Field, Neubau, Austria, June 12, 1945
No. 5–The Repatriation of Displaced Persons from the Linz,
Austria, Area, June 13, 1945
No. 6–Rail Connections Open for Traffic from Linz, Austria (as of
June 3), June 13, 1945
No. 7 –The Danube River as a Means of Repatriating Displaced
Persons, June 13, 1945
(Box 52, location: 290/07/21/07). Note: Duplicates of Nos. 1 and 2
are filed in Folder 2711.7.2 above. Proudfoot’s rank is given alternately as
Major and Lt. Colonel, indicating he was promoted during this time.)
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