Austria · Mauthausen
Mauthausen concentration camp
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After the SS Economic-Administration Main Office ( SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt; WVHA) assumed control of the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps and the camp system in March 1942, the SS established hundreds of subcamps throughout the so-called Greater German Reich. Subordinate to the main concentration camps, these subcamps were generally located in the vicinity of factories, stone quarries and mines, in which SS labor allocation officers deployed prisoners transferred from the main camp. Between 1940 and 1945, the SS authorities established nearly 50 subcamps in the Mauthausen concentration camp system, most of them in 1943 and 1944.
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1938
Closed 1945
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1938
Region
Mauthausen
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
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Visiting
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Mailing
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Practical info
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Known issues
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Notable inmates
Karl Chmielewski1903–1991 · concentration camp guardKarl Chmielewski (16 July 1903 â 1 December 1991) was a German SS officer and concentration camp commandant.
Franz Dahlem1892–1981 · politicianFranz Dahlem (14 January 1892 â 17 December 1981) was a German communist politician who was a leading official of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
Erich Kuttner1887–1942 · journalist- Felix Hurdes1901–1974 · politician
Gusztáv Gratz1875–1946 · economistGusztáv Gratz (30 March 1875 in Gölnicbánya â 21 November 1946 in Budapest) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1921.
- Miklós Nyiszli1901–1956 · physician
Miklós Nyiszli (17 June 1901 â 5 May 1956) was a Hungarian-Romanian prisoner of Jewish heritage at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Thijs Taconis1914–1944 · spy- Tadeusz Orzeszko1907 · surgeon
- FrantiÅ¡ek Janouch1902–1965 · physician
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Data completeness
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Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q160139)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.