Mauthausen : Camp de concentration national-socialiste en Autriche rattachée, 1938-1945

A study of the history, organization, and functioning of the Mauthausen camp in Austria, founded in March 1938 after the Anschluss. The prisoners were liberated in the spring of 1945. Discusses changes in the camp over the years, the various categories of prisoners, the organization of forced labor there and in satellite camps, as well as underground organizations of prisoners. Estimates that there were ca. 190,000 prisoners in Mauthausen, among them ca. 40,000 Jews. Includes bibliographical references (pages 713-742). 747 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.