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Mauthausen concentration camp
Coverage of Mauthausen concentration camp in the Nexus archive.
- Hitler's Austrian birthplace transformed into police station
Austria opened a new police station in Adolf Hitler’s former house in Braunau-am-Inn to deter far-right extremists from visiting the site. The mayor and Interior Minister emphasized the location’s transformation into a symbol of democracy and law, with a memorial stone retaining historical memory.
- Documenting the horrors of Mauthausen concentration camp
At 22, Army medic LeRoy 'Pete' Petersohn helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen and documented its horrors in a letter home. His son states that Petersohn felt compelled to record these events for historical documentation.