05.04.08 : Mauthausen - A Journey Through A Nazi Concentration Camp
I thought I'd add this set of photos here to the blog as it's something different and let's us step back for a moment and think about other things for a change.
The following pictures is a sombre reminder of what our father and forefathers fought for and why we live in relative peace in the democracy that we know today. It was taken at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria where estimated figures of 120,000 to 300,000 Jews were executed. One of the first concentration camps by the Nazis and one of the last to be freed by the Allies.
Photographer: Hien
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I thought I'd add this set of photos here to the blog as it's something different and let's us step back for a moment and think about other things for a change.
The following pictures is a sombre reminder of what our father and forefathers fought for and why we live in relative peace in the democracy that we know today. It was taken at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria where estimated figures of 120,000 to 300,000 Jews were executed. One of the first concentration camps by the Nazis and one of the last to be freed by the Allies.
Photographer: Hien
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This is from the inside looking out. You can see the watch tower and barbed fences. Over the fence there's a 15m odd drop and at least 500m of clearing to 'run' before getting shot.
There are no longer any guards in the tower, but standing there you can't help but feel immense pain and suffering that wreaked this place 70 odd years ago.
There are no longer any guards in the tower, but standing there you can't help but feel immense pain and suffering that wreaked this place 70 odd years ago.
The watch tower looking over the prisoner living quarters. Heavy shadows are cast from the building to the left, this place feels so barren and lifeless.
The Gas Chamber Room. The Jews were made to enter these rooms not knowing what their fate awaited. The weak who could not work in the quarry nearby were gassed and brought to the furnaces for cremation.
There are no bullet holes here.
There are no bullet holes here.
Communal bathrooms riddled with bullet holes and large drain pipes fitted for only one purpose.
This was the most disheartening room in the entire camp.
This was the most disheartening room in the entire camp.
Cremation Furnace. There were a number of these in the lower underground quarters. Prisoners were never aware that these existed.
The central memorial in the middle of the camp with a wreath in colour.
A contrast of 'light' vs 'dark'. The dark watch towers loom over the bright white statues in memory to those who died.
This memorial was near the entry of the concentration camp looking over the quarries below.
This memorial was near the entry of the concentration camp looking over the quarries below.
The light at the end of the dark tunnel (for those who made it). Plaques line the walls, filled with thousands of names in memory of those who lost their life here.
