Here is a map of Mauthausen

Mauthausen or other known as (KZ Mauthausen-Gusen) was a Concentration camp
located in Austria.  This camp was constructed within 13 months by prisoners of the KL Gusen II 
concentration camp within the Mauthausen-Gusen complex due to its high mortality (up to 98%),
it became one of the most horrible concentration camp sites in European history.  If you were a 
prisoner of Mauthausen, the maximum time you would of survived was 4 months.  The men would of 
died off quicker because of the hard labor. Mauthausen was also the only concentration camp 
where first experimental gazations were carried out in March 1942, other punishments that were 
at that camp was the epidemic typhus.Mauthausen was liberated on May 5th, 1945.

Here is a picture of the Mauthausen Commander(Franz Ziereis). 
 He was shot by an Alied soldier and later died from his wounds.

Here is a picture of the people that survived Mauthausen and 
American liberators gathered on a camp street after the liberation of Mauthausen.

Here is a picture of the survivors of Mauthausen pulling
down the Nazi eagle after the liberation.

 Here is a picture of an American Troop talking to the women 
and children survivors through barbed wire.

Here is a picture of a Soviet honor guard standing before the "Todesstiege" 
(The Stairs of Death) in the Mauthausen concentration camp. Nazis forced 
prisoners to repeatedly carry heavy granite blocks up these stairs until 
they died or were murdered if they failed.

Here is a picture of a survivors in Mauthausen opening one of the crematoria ovens for American troops who are inspecting the camp.

Here is a picture of the people that survived Mauthausen and
 American liberators gathered on a camp street after the liberation of Mauthausen.