The three Gusen concentration camps held a significant proportion of prisoners within the Mauthausen-Gusen complex. For most of its history, this exceeded the number of prisoners at the Mauthausen main camp itself.

On 5 May 1945 the US Army reached Gusen and Mauthausen. Some prisoners were in such a weakened state that many still died in the days and weeks after liberation. Of a total of around 190,000 people imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamps over seven years, at least 90,000 died.

Koncentracioni kamp Mauthauzen (od leta 1940. poznat kao Koncentracioni logor Mauthauzen-Gusen) je izrastao u najveću grupu nacističkih koncentracionih logora izgrađenih oko sela Mauthauzen i Gusen u Gornjoj Austriji, oko 20 km istočno od Linca.

Gusen was a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp operated by the SS (Schutzstaffel) between the villages of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen and Langestein in the Reichsgau Ostmark (currently Perg District, Upper Austria). Primarily populated by Polish prisoners, there were also large numbers of Spanish Republicans, Soviet citizens, and Italians.

During the war, the SS incarcerated more than 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war at Mauthausen, including 3,000 held at the Mauthausen subcamp Gusen. Nationals of virtually every German-occupied country in World War II came through Mauthausen.

In 1940, the Nazis established Gusen concentration camp. Learn more about camp conditions, forced labor, and liberation.

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Dec 30, 2024 · Konzentrationslager Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp complex which comprised a main camp at Mauthausen, Austria (established in 1938) as well as a series of subcamps, among which the Gusen I, II, III camps were the largest.

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All the activity revolved around the Wiener Graben and the underground tunneling at the sub-camps of Gusen (I, II and III), Melk and Ebensee. In the Wiener Graben the prisoners were divided into two groups; one that hacked into the granite and the other that carried the slabs up the 186 steep steps to the top of the quarry.