75 years ago, on May 5, 1945, soldiers of the U.S. Army liberated Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Upper Austria. An estimated nearly 200,000 prisoners passed through the Mauthausen camp system between August 1938 and May 1945. At least 95,000 died there, more than 14,000 of those were Jewish. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower, who inspected camps in Germany, later wrote to his wife Mamie, “I never dreamed that such cruelty, bestiality and savagery could really exist in this wor
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May 5, 1945 — Liberation of Mauthausen By early May 1945, the Third Reich was collapsing. Yet inside the granite walls of Mauthausen concentration camp, suffering continued. The infamous “Stairs of Death” — 186 uneven steps from the quarry floor — had long served as a brutal instrument of punishment. Emaciated prisoners were forced to carry heavy stone blocks upward; many collapsed, and many did not survive the climb. When American forces arrived on May 5, they encountered thousands of prisoners
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