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Mauthausen Liberation: When Prisoners Took Revenge on Their Nazi Guards
Mauthausen was one of the most brutal concentration camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. Established in Austria in 1938 after the Anschluss, the camp became a central site of forced labor, starvation, torture, and mass murder within the Nazi camp system.
Located near Linz, Mauthausen was designated a Category III concentration camp, reserved for prisoners whom the Nazi regime considered its most dangerous enemies. Together with its network of subcamps, including Gusen, it held Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political opponents, Spanish Republicans, and inmates from…
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