Naming the dead. Sources for the memorial book and compiling the names of those deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp
TitreNaming the dead. Sources for the memorial book and compiling the names of those deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp
Auteur
Call number940.547243094362/0006
N° d'objet09365b
Lieu de publicationVienna, Austria
EditeurNew Academic Press
Année de publication
2016
Paginationpp27-34
MatérielArticle
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