Mauthausen Concentration Camp Today: Complete tour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In September 2017 I visited the Mauthausen Memorial (former Mauthausen Concentration Camp) near Linz, Austria. I’ve mixed my video footage with the official Audio guide in English.
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Mauthausen, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, located near the village of Mauthausen, 20 km east of Linz, Austria. It was established in April 1938, shortly after Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Starting as a satellite of Dachau, in Germany, it became an independent camp in the spring of 1939, operated by the SS (the Nazi paramilitary corps) and acquiring satellite camps of its own throughout Austria, all collectively called Mauthausen.
The camp provided slave labor to work previously abandoned stone quarries nearby. About 200,000 prisoners passed through Mauthausen. Some 120,000 of them died, mainly from starvation, disease, and the hardships of labor. About 38,000 of the dead were Jews. Mauthausen also had a gas chamber and gas vans, and from April 1944 to January 1945 the gas chambers at nearby Hartheim Castle were also used to kill prisoners too weak to work or too “undesirable” to be kept alive. The SS fled Mauthausen shortly before American troops entered the camp on May 5, 1945.
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My grandfather, survived the Mauthausen concentration camp. He, along with his two sisters and parents were all deported to one of the labour camps in 1944 after the Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia. They managed to escape along with some other Slovenians and walked for more than 100 km, avoiding beeing seen from any patrols or local population. I wanted him to tell me many times about his ordeal in detail, but he got so emotional and almost started crying that I stopped at that point. He passed away in April at age 87.
gunzoline93 I’m so sorry. My condolences to you and your family. He will always be by your side.
@maksim lukjan keep you're uneducated comments to yourself
Bless his heart..Rest easy ..
@maksim lukjan time to grow up junior
Mine too, except he didn't escape. Never met him, but they tell me that the only story he wanted to share about Mauthausen was about typhus that took many lives there, and how he apparently had some sort of a resistance to that disease. He spoke German fluently, but never let anyone from the family to learn that language in the school.
I was here in 1969. The silence was overwhelming. It seemed there were no birds. Chilling and gut-wrenching!
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I visited Dachau in 1996 and it was the same thing the silence was overwhelming. Never knew silence to be so loud anywhere else in the world. We went as a highschool group and when we left you could hear a pin drop for hours afterwards. Rip to all that lost their lives in this sad sad part of human history. May we never forget what happened.
My grandfather was there. He was arrested as normal citizen in 1942... He survived a lot of tortures, and beatings.. He was liberated by the Americans in 1945...
He told many sad and frightening stories. On the first day when he got there, he accidentally looked the German officer in the eyes and because of that he received several strong punches to the head and body... He also told me about the hard work, carrying a stone down and up the stairs, about the food which was sawdust and beet soup!!!
I wish I could have heard this better. When I worked in Germany in the late 1960’s, I was friends with a Polish gentleman who had been interred here as a teenager after seeing his mother shot. He worked mainly in the crematorium. I have never seen this place before.
Hitler was a diehard criminal and a megalomaniac.
@@dibyendudasgupta7468 so was Churchill
So was Stalin
@@jaiminsangar7531 I see no
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My uncle was in the 82nd airborne. He helped liberate one of the camps. He told my father about it when he got drunk one night. My dad made a mistake and mentioned it to my uncle the next day when he was sober. He never did that again.
Thanks for sharing this video. I've been there many times. I teach history, and Mauthausen is only 30 minutes from our town, so I often visit this place with school children.
Thank you. If you will find time, please write me a letter on e-mail
Throughout the years.., what is the narrative of the locals? especially the elders.
Violin music is painfully Loud in places, but this is a common issue with many Holocaust videos...Not sure why, the words are so important.
However...Subtitles on with volume off solves the clash between loud music and quiet narration.Edit: The uploader filmed the footage himself, and added official narration in English...Helps those of us who don't speak Russian.
Well done. However could you turn down the background music. It's good music for this story, just to loud. 🍁🍂😊
Don't worry. The story stands. ¿O.k.?
I agree the music was a little distracting I couldn’t concentrate on what the he was saying but great vid though
It is probably necessary for avoiding copyright claim and takedown by making the detection harder.
Respect your opinion but for me it sets the mood of how somber and sad the history of this place is. But everyone is different of course.
Thanks to laud background music I am leaving after two minutes. Could you notify me when you have turned it down?
The violin music in the background just gives you a headache when you’re trying to listen to the narrator.
Yes....too loud !
Too bad!
ruins the video, i stopped watching
@@tram84mvp My solution is to turn the audio all the way down and use subtitles.
It's like they're trying to turn it into a "Schindler's List" film. It is a bit too overbearing for the narration.
Get rid of the back ground music. An annoying distraction.
Didn't even notice. Too into the story.
How cud u not notice/hear it? Kinda defeats the purpose of narrating....
Laser focus 🤗
@@Lisa1111 hahaha...✌👌👍👊
Agreed. The music competes with the narrator.
I visited this camp in 1982, - 37 years ago as a 22 year old. The images are still vivid but other aspects of this place are not portrayed in the video clip tour. These other sites were even more breathtaking as they were real: soap made from humans, lamp shades made of tattooed human skin, rooms full of shoes and left luggage. The gas chamber with shower head and tiled walls, the rusted heat treated gurney for placing corpses into a furnace. This gurney was heavy by itself and difficult to manage.
The sobering visit has stayed with me for decades and has always reinforced my view to be grateful to the military who stood between us and this; to be thankful for where I live - a peaceful country by comparison.
So it has been proven that the Nazis actually made soap from human beings? I thought that was controversial because there has never been any substantive proof for that claim. Just curious, thanks.
A very detailed and realistic look at this camp. Thank you for taking the effort to do this. As for the 187 dislikes, i say to them, why does your conscience allow you to do this?
Interesting. As of 2022.12.18 I see zero dislikes.
It maybe that the dislikes are in response to the "musik" which at times almost drowns out the commentary and does nothing to help or improve the experience.
My uncle, Jack King, helped liberate Mauthausen and took out a few SS in the process.
My dad was reportedly the very first American into the camp via a hole blasted by a tank. He also was said to have shot the camp’s commander. I do know and saw some of the photographs he took of the crematoriums but my mother discarded them all. After the war he was assigned drive German soldiers and concentration victims home.
@@topcat32349 interesting fact is there were actually some American pows in the camp. I know at least one survived because I read a news story about his story. He talked also about how horrific the conditions in there were.
Thank you for this documentary. Dad was a slave/prisoner in Mauthausen and Auschwitz. He confided in me about this time of his life only once, when he got sick. Sadly, only then did I realize that he suffered every day the Shoah. When he was a patient at Mt. Sinai hospital, I would sit with him and we would listen to lectures and music. (He was legally blind.) Every time there was a mention of the Holocaust or the Kaddish was sung his ventilator’s alarms started ringing. So that trauma sat there always, the elephant in the room. His life was difficult and he fought and he won. He wanted to live. L’chaim. His motto, “get into line, I will overcome”. However, the hospital and their oaths to only heal the sick is run as a business. The Natzi’s couldn’t finish him off, but the butchers at the hospital did.
My dad survived this camp with his brother.
My great uncle did too with his brother, who nearly died. Now great great granchildren growing up in Israel. עם ישראל חי
I have visited Mauthausen. The silence is deafening.
Yes...the music is way too loud, I did not finish the video
I wonder if those buried there would be happy that their final resting place is inside the monstrous camp where they suffered and died. They were never able to escape, even in death.
That thought did occur to me too.
You can't fully appreciate the importance and value of sewers until you live in a prison camp without them.
We were there in Sept. 2017 as well. I remember seeing from the top of the quarry the beautiful nearby rolling hills. Also from up on the walls one can see the distant Alps. I remember thinking it must have been terrible to see such beauty off in the distance from such a hell hole. The walk up from the bus stop was through such a beautiful neighborhood too.
On this day 27th of March 1945 Ricardo my grandfather died at Mauthausen Nazi Concentration Camp a month before the Americans liberated the CC. He was first interned at Dachau CC on his birthday the 1st of Feb 1944 and then transported to Mauthausen in August of 1944...
He must have known Francisco Boix. He was also interred in Mauthausen. He was the photograph from Mauthausen, and smuggled the films out of the camp. They were used at Nuremberg trials. Unfortunately, Francisco died soon after he got out of the camp.
13tumare Aww hope your grandfather is at peace.
Very informative but please turn down the beautiful music!
Background music is way too loud
My grandfather was one of the liberators.
This seems very well done.....but I had to turn it off at the 2 min mark......the music makes the narration a strain to listen to.
There's a movie about this camp called the Photographer of Mauthausen.
Very well done and informative. The music ( I recognized it from the OST from Schindler's List) is beautiful, but a bit loud in some parts.
The final salt-in-the-wound of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis was the fact that SO MANY of them went unpunished, either because they were considered low-level, the allies did not have the resources to bring them all to trial, or they were aided in their escape to Argentina by various groups, including the Catholic Church, and others. They too, have blood on their hands. Unfortunately, man is quite good at NOT learning from history and repeating genocide all over the planet.
Not sure if it's my phone, however, I can hear the narrator 100% despite the music. I think the video is well done.
Sorry, but the music detracts from the content
I think it's safe to say that the music is to loud 😬.
I was there in 1969. There seemed to be a lack of oxygen surrounding the place! 😱
Been there with my school class. It is a really haunting feeling walking down the stair of deaths. May all these innocent souls rest in peace.
Absolutely horrible, horrific, I am speechless, what can you ever say, to soothe, such pain….
The nazis in their perversity graded their concentration camps by harshness. Mauthausen was one of their harshest ones. It was extermination through labor not an extermination camp as such. A lot of soviet POWs perished there and captured agents.
Graham Lowe and allied airmen
Nazi German. And how Nazi German could financed it? Germany was completely broken after 1WW. So how is it possible that this broken country was able to finance enormous project like 2WW within 20 years? Maybe someone gave them money then? Who were they... hmmm... yeah, that is interesting question.
The Schindler's List soundtrack in the background was absolutely appropriate, and it wasn't THAT loud. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Excellent short film. Thank you
You should have mentioned Francisco Boix who was imprisoned here with other Spanish guys, risked his life here, and managed to save the films that were done in the camp (supposed to be destroyed), that were used at the Nurnberg trials.
@Kristie C Yes, i've watched the movie on Netflix. It was so powerful I watched bits and pieces. I also speak Spanish but I am not at all fluent. There is another amazing Norwegian movie about a real case from WWII -The 12th man (Den12 Mann). It's on Netflix.
Several years ago, I drank Kosher Schlivovitz and Kosher Vodka at the kitchen table at Martin Small, a survivor of Mauthausen. He was pulled off a pile of bodies when the Americans liberated the camp. He survived from being near dead. He gave me a beautiful Mezuzah that he created. I have it mounted on my door.
@flikedout I was born in Austria. I did not know that this camp exhisted until I saw the Netflix movie. A mutual friend later told me that Martin was in this camp.
Why would someone make the music louder than spech?
....my heart breaks....may the dead RIP
And the evil rot in HELL.
THANK YOU
Though extremely hard to watch it is very fitting that you took the time to remind the World of the Reality that existed, and still exists..R.I.P.
Music too loud
Awesome video,the music is just a little to loud for me,but that’s my opinion. History should become a school must watch.
Been in my youth there. Thx for sharing!
hard to hear with the music being a bit over powering (but fitting).
out of all i’ve read or watched about the camps this is the first time i’ve heard mention of a “store” where prisoners could buy items. where did they get the money from? i’m a little confused over this comment...i knew about the brothels but not a store
Excellently made film. Thank you.
I couldn’t hear the speaker with the violin playing…
Gosh what a horrible horrific place
Just been watching this and I feel much sadness for the people what they went through and much more hurt for the people who were murdered here may they R.I.P.
Good film, good explanation. I was there. I will never forget it. Our children need to go there and see this stuff. Maybe, they might understand what went on. This needs to be taught in American schools. To the point of older comments:
"luke Porter
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Did this place have cliff were they walked people off with rocks I went to one in the year 2000 but can't remember which one"
Yes --this is where they pushed the prisoners off at the top of the Quirey --they made each one push another off. The heavy rocks they brought up the stairs---they would push a man backward and watch him die falling down the rock steps with his heavy rock on top of him.
The Germans have torn down and will do anything --to remove anything to get rid of WW2.
Over the years, prisoners have returned and re-build parts of these camps (they had to be torn down because of health reasons). Never forget.
The ultimate cowardice - making one prisoner push another. Perhaps that way they lied to themselves that they didn't have blood on their hands. How on earth does one become so cruel and bereft of humanity? My belief in God wavers, but I do believe I have to answer to some sort of higher power. There should always be that healthy fear of accountability and consequences. The arrogance of these people was off the scale.
Terrible. people need to know. it happened. The music is a bit distracting. Thank you for sharing.
The background music makes watching impossible. Too moody, too loud. I understand that violin music is often used to create a certain feeling, but if videos like this one are mainly supposed to be historical, then the violin music is all wrong because the music overwhelms the narration.
Like the world trade center it is very sad.
The background music makes this unwatchable.
Thank you, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was just going to comment on that now.
why so bad music
Why is the music bothering so many viewers? It is beautiful and appropriate.
Let's pretend we were trained by the BBC and play music over the spoken word as they do
Was there Sept 1987 the visitors centre is new and they opened a few more exhibits! The day I was there a group of Yugoslavian former inmates were there with me.
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@@marlenelariviere4998 Yes
I read that Mauthausen had a subcamp named Gusen.It was said to be the most brutal of all-worse than Mauthausen itself.Many claimed it was even worse than the death camps(as opposed to concentration camps) like Auschwitz and Treblinka.
@flikedout Jesus,sorry,I can't imagine.Seems like the Austrian camps (Mauthausen,Gusen,Ebensee)were as if not more sadistic than those in Germany and Poland.I wish they'd all get more recognition,but there were so few survivors to bear witness.If you haven't seen it,Remembering The Camps,narrated by Hitchcock,has a segment on Ebensee.
you are right, i live very near the camp and thus we have been educated ob this topic very specifically. gusen was probably even more cruel, and only very few who were sent there survived
@@toniixxx8046 Thanks,I remember reading that decades ago.Austria's beautiful though,isn't it? Those mountains would be quite a change from where I'm living now.
Excellent research.
It's a pity that the camera man didn't pay more attention to notices on walls etc., to see what they said. I had to be a bit quick on the pause button to read the ones I could.
I think back ground music should have been limited for open shots of places where there is no commentary, otherwise to me, it interferes with the commentary.
But over all, it is a chilling video of the place where so much death an suffering by the inmates took place.
The music please too laud!!!
A very very very dark history!!
@ You fucking asshole. What an ignorant thing to say. America fought the Nazis and ended this horror. Douchebag.
@ You are crazier than a shithouse rat. I hope you don't live in the United States, and if you do then why don't you leave if you hate it so much?
Your comments are insane including the ones blubbering about prison conditions here in America. Here's an idea: Don't commit criminal acts and you won't end up in prisons. It's pretty easy to follow the laws set forth in this Constitutional Republic, and if you can't abide by these laws then you are a pretty stupid failure as a human being.
Craig doesn’t have brain one.
I am not familiar with this camp. Thank you for bring it to my attention. Very well done video.
Finally somebody that knows the terminology of narration for that particular concentration camp video finally somebody had a brain to narrate it and tell the story behind it that's the way it's supposed to be done but the cheesy music behind it could have been left out and the audio could have been turned up a little bit for what the guy was saying otherwise it was a really good video
Thank you for the positive feedback. I have taken the audio guide extras to edit this video, yet it was a bit of a challenge to shot all the needed footage on the site and then to edit. Sorry for the loudness of the music. I would continue to make 'WW2' videos in the future.
@@maxim-chornyi Virtually inaudible due to the violin, had to stop watching 1 minute in. Please post a version without the muzak.
@@maxim-chornyi I did not see all the graves. They were there in 1996 when we visited.
So many interesting docs are ruined with unesscary music
...there's ALWAYS a critic!
Excellent video. Authoritative.
My uncle was in 601sr TD division and I was lucky to hear them. One story he tells is of liberating a camp,I would love to find the camp he helped liberate,he never named it....
Mauthausen... It was camp complex which was called Mauthasen-Gusen. And what is on former Gusen's area now? A housing estate with beautiful houses with garden pools and the entry gate converted to private villa. Flowerpots with oleanders on human bones...
That figures
Gusen has its own memorial site. And just to mention: Mauthausen was the main camp. there were more sites belonging to Mauthausen like Ebensee and many more
@Daniel Francis I do not know. I've been there but didnt see any bones.
@Daniel Francis not to see any bones doesnt mean there were no bones. maybe they have been buried. if bones could have been identified they were probably given to the nations they belonged. the main victims of CC Mauthausen were soviet POWs. But also german and austrian communists, social democrats, even members of right parties were killed. and many for religious beliefs: catholics, witness of jehova, jews, ... and also atheists. btw many italiens too. US army personnel, french, ... british, canadian, spanish... and again btw: one who listend to foreign radio stations like bbc ended up in a CC.
@Daniel Francis shooting of partisans was legal? was it also legal to shoot US flying personnal? or brtitish?
The eagle over the doorway was so imposing. Why did they not leave it there?
Interesting video; I have visited the area, although not the camp, and I'm sure the cold in winter would readily have killed off a high percentage of the prisoners.
The music level wasn't as bad as might have been expected from some of the comments, but I think it would be better without any at all.
Great video. The narration helps a lot to understand what went on in those horrible times. I too have made slideshows of visits to other camps 14 years ago. It stays with you, the feeling of sorrow for what horrors laid within these walls.
Violin NOISE ruins this video.
Great grandmother, great grandfather, great great grandfather
Yes I couldnt take the sad music in the background besides that it took away from watching the whole doc sorry to say..
Thr guy who composed that music should be locked away somewhere dark.....
He probably was locked away in a standing cell which was a special type of torment.
@@peterrodby2786 The music is from John Williams Schindler's List soundtrack. He is still writing and composing.
I love Austria, Germany, the Alps but I cannot help to look up the war and pre-war history of all those lovely places I have vacationed or visited. It learned me that the Austrians were among the most fanatic Nazi’s. Austrians were over represented in the party in general and in the SS in specific. Yet, somehow they’ve succeeded in looking like a victim after the war.
I once got told the Austrians were prime ss (and/or gestapo?) material due to their natural arrogance.
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How on earth did they identify the exhumed corpses? The only thing that I can think of is their tattooed numbers but these would only be any good with camp records.
There was music played while speaking about concentration camps. It is not necessary. The listener is disturbed by the music while listening to a serious matter
Pity of the music. It is suited to the subject but much too present, difficult to concentrate on the commentary with this music so prominently in the background.
Potentially interesting but impossible to listen to because of the loud music.
It's awesome to know more n more about this... I usually very curious to know more about the facts and places related to WW2.. and you explained it well... Thanks 👍
For everyone complaining about the music, just download the clip remove the music and play it back at your leisure.
Thank you for sharing this with us. WWII left an imprint on my heart. So many dead so needlessly. We can learn from history yet it seems we never do. Now colleges want to tell young adults this never happened.
Thank you for watching. You can check my blog for articles may be interesting for you as an addition to the video. You can dinf the link within the description to the video.
Which colleges?
Charlie K there are plenty of documentaries....do some research
Wait. What colleges are you speaking of?
Most humans are incapable from learning from history. As long as people remember and hold onto what happened in the past, without being able to forgive or forget and move on, then there can never be changes. Religion also plays a big role in people not learning from the past.
I will go there one day. Those poor, innocent men, mothers and children and those warped and wicked people.
@N/A N/A FAKEstinians you mean !
Very sad.
The background music is annoying and distracting.
Easier to mute the sound and turn on captions.
How can the human race be so evil to do this I saw Dachau Concentration Camp it was an awful feeling
it is not HUMAN RACE! This is one specific race. Well, according to definition they are not race. They financed 1WW, then 2WW, got enormous benefits of them (especially 2WW) and they still make profits under Hocoloust Company plus some asid jobs like petrol wars in the middle east.
How can the human race murder unborn children?
Thank you for telling the truth
That is pretty nice shape!
Great video
Good film and the specifics of mass cruelty too our brothers and sisters.😢😥
and to think.. this still goes on.. and will become more prevalent as the decades roll on.. what a world.. I am glad I am old... And for those of you that do not believe what I have said.. Burn it into your memories.. so when you do finally become aware of it.. I can whisper from the grave.. "I told you so!" GOD help us all..
@Pitt Burgh Well, I will let you figure that one out for yourself my friend.. It's no fun when people supply the answers for you.. you can always say 'they lie"... Finding it out for yourself will let you see some things you never thought possible..
@Pitt Burgh Burgh.. why so hostile? Can't you do your own research? you just go with what "everybody" else knows? And there are plenty of people who know what I know.. it's not a secret.. I would have told you where to look if you had asked.. But since you and "everybody" already know then you probably do not need me to tell you.. Sorry dude you are just going to have sit in your vomitus anger and stew with your "everybody else".. how sad you have become..
It’s very simple stupid , Palestine !!!
@@Chuckyarla I wish it was that simple...
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4:35 A soda vending machine? Seriously? Put that crap outside the site in a visitors' center or something.
I tried, but I couldn't stand the loud violin music,.
What year was the stone boat outside of the camp built?
This would be a great video but the music is to loud to listen to
I heard every word and think the background music is appropriate in every way.
The subtitles seems mostly onpoint on this one, so Subs on, Sound off. 👌
looks like a hell of a place to live
Couldn't be any worse than ANY ONE OF THE PLANTATIONS IN THESE UNITED STATES!!
@ you are right they got some of their ideas from the us
I wish he would turn up the background music a little more, could barley here it over the narration 🙄
It's so beautiful, but for history you would never believe what went on here, God bless them all
Great but very sad video.