Melk concentration camp
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Background
Melk concentration camp (also called Melk labor camp and KZ Melk, A.K.Me.) was a forced labor unit for men, attached to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Upper Austria. Prisoners there were assigned to the construction of an underground ball-bearing factory for the Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG company. Established on January 11, 1944, approximately 14,390 prisoners were transported to Melk, where at least 4,896 perished. The camp was liberated on May 5, 1945. In January 1944, a Kommando of Mauthausen concentration camp was established in Melk, Lower Austria, in the former abandoned barracks of the Wehrmacht pioneers Freiherr von Birago, then located in the Reichsgau Niederdonau, about 100 km east of Linz.
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