Franz ziereis wiki

  • Franz Xaver Ziereis (13 August – 24 May ) was the commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp from until the camp was liberated by the.
  • German SS officer, commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp ().
  • Direct Image URL - the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a different scan of the same photo, which they credit.

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    Above image: Former prisoners greeting American forces in Mauthausen in May Courtesy of Cpl Donald R. Ornitz, US Army.

    In its essence, in its most fundamental aspects, Nazism was defined by the demonization, suppression, and ultimately mass annihilation of groups condemned as racial and political enemies. The gigantic network of concentration and extermination camps and the killing centers of the T-4 program for the mentally and physically disabled remain the starkest reminders of this ideological core of the National Socialist regime. The system of degradation, enslavement, medical experimentation, and genocide created by the Hitler dictatorship for its adversaries was without parallel, Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union not excepted. By comparison, the Nuremberg rallies with their massive spectacles of Führer adoration, the mobilization of Germans from all backgrounds into party organizations, and even the suppression of other parties and political perspectives all appear as sec

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    Mauthausen

    Establishment of the Mauthausen Camp

    Nazi Germany incorporated Austria in the Anschluss of March , Shortly thereafter, Reichsführer-SS (SS chief) Heinrich Himmler, SS General Oswald Pohl, the chief of the SS Administration and Business Offices, and SS General Theodor Eicke, the Inspector of Concentration Camps, inspected a site they thought suitable for the establishment of a concentration camp to incarcerate, as Upper Austrian Nazi Party district leader August Eigruber put it, “traitors to the people from all over Austria.” The site was on the bank of the Danube River, near the “Wiener Graben” stone quarry, which was owned by the city of Vienna. It was located about three miles from the town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria, miles southeast of Linz.

    At the end of April , the SS founded a company, German Earth and Stone Works Inc. (Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke, GmbH-DESt), to exploit the granite which they intended to extract with conc

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    File:Bundesarchiv Bild , Kz Mauthausen, Besuch Heinrich Himmler, Franz

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    For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
    Kz Mauthausen, Besuch Heinrich Himmler, Franz Ziereis

    Zentralbild, Mauthausen Heinrich Himmler visiting Mauthausen which was opened on August 8, , a few months after the Anschluss of Austria and Germany on March 12, , which marked the beginning of Adolf Hitler's drive through europe. The site for the camp was chosen bygd Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS , and the man who had authority over all the camps. The location was in farm country, but near the Wienergraben, a municipal quarry which supplied the city of Wien (Vienna) with granite stones. The quarry was nära the city of Linz - April See also USHMM record. Abgebildete Personen:

    • Himmler, Heinrich: Reichsführer der SS, Deutschland (GNDX)
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