GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Austria to revamp Mauthausen concentration camp

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Federal News Radio

30March2011 10:09amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: VIENNA (AP) - Austrian authorities have presented plans to restore and revamp the Nazis' former Mauthausen concentration camp.

The Nazis shot, gassed, beat or worked to death about half the 200,000 inmates in the main camp or its affiliates around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) east of the city of Linz. It is now a site for commemorating Holocaust victims and learning about the horrors of history. (read full report)

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