Naming the dead. Sources for the memorial book and compiling the names of those deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp
TitleNaming the dead. Sources for the memorial book and compiling the names of those deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp
Author
Call number940.547243094362/0006
Object number09365b
Place of publicationVienna, Austria
PublisherNew Academic Press
Year of publication
2016
Physical descriptionpp27-34
MaterialArticle
ISBN9783700319757
NotesArticle from the book' Memorial book for the dead of the Mauthausen concentration camp'pp27-34
Description
In April 1945, the SS began to destory the traces of its crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp. Facilities for mass killing were dismantled and those who had become witnesses to mass murder were killed. In May 1945, a War Crimes Investigation Team arrived there and this team was charged with securing evidence of the war crimes committed by the SS and to lay the foundations for the military tribunals against the perpetrators
