Mauthausen

Mauthausen

The human history has a number of incidences in which there was mass killing and genocides, where the occupants used severe methods to torture and kill the subjects. Such brutal and grave killings were done in the various concentration camps. After the Nazis came to power in Austria, the period of suffering of the Jewish population began. In the summer of 1938, more than 2,000 Jews were arrested on false reports, were sent to Dachau and there killed. Many of the Jews initially started hoping that the Nazis after taking away all their possessions and property will allow them to safely migrate, but almost all of them ended up in the gas chambers at Mauthausen and other death camps scattered across Europe. These were known as the extermination camps. The Extermination camps were basically gas chambers, which were used to for the systematic as well as large scale killing of Jews and other victims. This is the most unique and distinguishing feature of Holocaust that differentiates it from all the other forms of genocides, which was never used by anyone else before (Abzug, 2000). There was no concept of use of such chambers and places for the mass killings of individuals, and such camps were established at a number of places in Germany. This article by Robert H. Abzug has written a detailed account of the Mauthausen camp and the sufferings of the Jews.

According to the "racial theory" of Adolf Hitler and Alfred Rosenberg, the Jews had no right to exist. That is the reason why they were killed in the concentration camps like Mauthausen. Mauthausen is a German concentration camp near the town of Mauthausen established during 1938 - 1945 (Wachsmann & Caplan, 2009). Concentration camp is a system consisting of a central camp and 49 branches scattered throughout the ...