Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp - Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery

• Heinrich Himmler visited Mauthausen-Gusen in 1942, and is shown here conversing with a guard at the quarry.

• Another image of Himmler at the quarry, taken apparently immediately after the preceding image.

• Himmler in the quarry, prisoners doing forced labor can be seen at right.

• Himmler and his entourage ascend the "steps of death" which led from the quarry to a road going up to the Mauthausen camp.

• An explosion in the quarry, probably done as demonstration for Himmler during his visit.

• SS-officer in the quarry

• An SS barracks at Mauthausen

• Himmler and August Eigruber, one of the chief Austrian Nazis, taken during Himmler's visit to Mauthausen.

• Himmler's visit

• Soviet POWs standing before a barracks in Mauthausen Concentration Camp

• Liberated prisoners give rousing welcome to Cavalrymen of the 11th Armored Division.

• A survivor of Gusen.

• Exhibits at Mauthausen

• Construction of a prisoner barracks.

• Shot prisoner

• Execution of Bonarewitz, a prisoner who attempted an escape.

• New inmates change clothes at roll call square

• The survivors of Ebensee sub-camp shortly after their liberation.

• a memorial statue set by the state of Israel

• One of the barracks in Mauthausen with stones left by Jewish visitors in memory of the past.

• Prisoners in Ebensee, one of the sub-camps of Mauthausen-Gusen, after liberation by the US 80th Infantry Division

• Children's Memorial

• Two of the crematoria

• The Czechoslovakian Memorial

• Some of the commemorative plaques on the "Wailing Wall"

• A list of the dead (click the image for a translation)