In the shadow of death: Living outside the gates of Mauthausen

Looks at the local population living near the Mauthausen camp and its related facilities near Linz, Austria. Concludes that knowledge of the camp's existence and of its deadly purpose may have been impossible to ignore, although many later made this claim. The book accuses many Austrians in the post-war era of trying to sanitize or gloss over their country's cooperation with the occupiers.