Mauthausen Memorial: Vestiges of the Past

“Lager II” / Cemetery

You now stand in the former "Camp II“ (“Lager II”).

Within these walls (built in 1941), there used to be workshops. From 1944 onwards, the barracks were repurposed to quarantine newly arriving prisoners.

In the 1960s and 1970s, mass graves were exhumed and the bodies were reburied in this closed-off area.


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