The mauthausen CONCENTRATIONCAMP COMPLEX

the mauthausen CONCENTRATION CAMP COMPLEX

World War II and Postwar Records

REFERENCE INFORMATION PAPER 115

The Mauthausen Concentration Camp

Complex: World War II and Postwar Records

R E F E R E N C E I N F O R M A T I O N P A P E R 1 1 5

National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC

2008

Compiled by Amy Schmidt and Gudrun Loehrer

United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

The Mauthausen Concentration Camp Complex : World War II and postwar records / compiled by Amy Schmidt and Gudrun Loehrer.-- Washington, D.C. : National Archives and Records Administration, 2008.

p. ; cm.-- (Reference information paper ; 115)

Includes index.

1. Mauthausen (Concentration camp)--History-- Sources-- Bibliography--Catalogs. 2. United States. National Archives and Records Administration--Catalogs. 3. World War, 1939--1945--Concentration camps--Austria-- Mauthausen-- History--Sources--Bibliography--Catalogs. I. Schmidt, Amy. II. Loehrer, Gudrun. III. United States.

National Archives and Records Administration.

Front cover: (Top, from left) Heinrich Himmler, at left, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner (behind him) visit the Mauthausen camp, 1941. (USA Exhibit 904, RG 238)

A topsecret German teletype circular provides instructions for transport of escaped and recaptured Allied POWs to Mauthausen for execution. (USA Exhibit 246, RG 238)

A group of captured Yugoslav partisans after processing by Mauthausen's Political Department, circa 1943. (Mauthausen Trial, Prosecution Exhibit 153, Box 345, RG 549)

(Bottom) Mauthausen inmates welcome the U.S. Army's 41st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Armored Division, on May 5, 1945. Camp Gusen was liberated the same day, making these sites the last of the large German concentration camps to be liberated by advancing Allied forces. (111SC206395)

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Preface

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PART I: INTRODUCTION

Background

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About the Records

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War Crimes Proceedings

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Mauthausen War Crimes Records

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Nontextual Records

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Purposes of This Guide

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How to Use This Guide

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Acknowledgments

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PART II: ORIGINAL MAUTHAUSEN RECORDS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Original Mauthausen Records

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Camp Registers

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RG 238, National Archives Collection

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of World War II War Crimes Records

RG 549, Records of United States Army, Europe

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Francois Boix Photographic Collection

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RG 153, Records of the Office of the Judge

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Advocate General (Army)

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