Word: mauthausen
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...destroyed, his armies had to surrender unconditionally. Only then could the genocide be stopped and liberation secured. It was Hitler and his Nazi thugs who directed the Holocaust. It was the America Roosevelt led that destroyed them. As Simon Wiesenthal wrote, "At the time I was a prisoner in Mauthausen, my last concentration camp, the name Franklin Roosevelt was the hope for freedom for me and my fellow prisoners. For those of us who were liberated by the U.S. Army in May 1945, Franklin Roosevelt is truly the Man of the Century." WILLIAM J. VANDEN HEUVEL, PRESIDENT Franklin and Eleanor...
Denson was the chief prosecutor for atrocities committed by Nazis in four concentration camps--Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenberg and Buchenwald--in trials held between...
...offered a convincing answer, certainly not the participants themselves. Only last week a West Berlin court convicted a former SS doctor of having murdered scores of inmates at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria-"sometimes out of pure boredom," said the judge. For Yale Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who has spent much of his professional life examining disaster, understanding the doctors of the Holocaust has now become a particularly grim challenge...
...weeks it took to shoot NBC's $6 million miniseries. In contrast to ABC's Roots, which re-created African villages on Hollywood back lots, Holocaust was filmed in the area where its horrors actually happened. One of the key locations was the Austrian prison camp of Mauthausen, which was used to simulate Auschwitz and Buchenwald. "It was a frightening place," says Berger. "The average life span of a Jew there was 48 hours. At one point in the filming, Cyril Shaps, a totally professional English actor of Jewish descent, was putting on his pajama-striped prison garb...
...have a compact with the dead. But if I could get this man, my soul would finally be at peace." So says Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi hunter of Vienna. Since his liberation from Mauthausen death camp in 1945, Wiesenthal, now 68, has dedicated his life to avenging the victims of Hitler's Holocaust by tracking down more than 1,100 of their murderers. Yet the most sadistic Nazi war criminal of all has eluded his grasp...