Commemoration of the victims of the Gusen concentration camp in Langenstein

At the celebration of Gusen National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) was also present at the memorial service committee at the Mauthausen memorial.

Between 1938 and 1945, almost 200,000 people from more than 40 nations were held captive in the Mauthausen concentration camp and its more than 40 subcamps, and around 90,000 did not survive. In the subcamp Gusen, where 71,000 prisoners from almost 30 nations were interned, of whom around 36,000 died, the conditions were particularly harsh. The prisoners had to build a tunnel complex for the armaments industry under the code name “Bergkristall”.

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While the core of the main camp in Mauthausen became a memorial, the area fell into disrepair Gusen increasingly forgotten. After the liberation, the camp was dismantled and houses were built. Austria was repeatedly confronted with criticism from at home and abroad that the commemoration of this horror site was being neglected. A few years ago, the Republic finally acquired some land on the site of the former concentration camp Gusennow a worthy memorial place is to be created there.

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