Visiting Mauthausen Concentration Camp

Although a miserable sort of place, it is impossible to visit central Europe without visiting one of the many former Nazi concentration camps that are scattered throughout. This was the place of death for thousands, including many of my grandmother’s great-uncles. It was not one of the high-tech killing centers like Auschwitz, it functioned as a stone quarry during the war with it’s inmates being worked to death or dying of cholera or typhus before.

The barracks at Mauthausen

The entrance to Mauthausen