Confession and letter of Mauthausen commander
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Accessioned into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection in 1991.
Scope and Content
Includes a copy in English of a confession made by Franz Ziereis, the commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp (identified in the documents as "Franz"), after his arrest by American forces in May 1945. In the confession, the commandant describes conditions in Mauthausen and other camps as well as the various methods of torture and execution practiced by the Nazis. Ziereis also gives detailed information relating to the activities of his fellow commanders and physicians employed in the camps. Also included are two poems in German concerning suffering in the camps and a letter from Ziereis to his wife.
People
- Ekermann.
- Ziereis, Franz.
- Krelsback.
- Mierov.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Gusen (Concentration camp)
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 131st
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Concentration camp tattoos--Austria.
- Physicians.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Sonderkommandos.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- Holocaust victims.
- Crematoriums.
- Prostitution.
- Gas chambers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
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