German Translation Service Teaches About Aust Follow

In May 1945 the US Army liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen and the remaining satellite camps.  Nearly 200,000 people passed through the Mauthausen system, and half of them fell victim to the Nazi death machine.  In Austria and other countries, the name Mauthausen has become synonymous with teh terrible atrocities that this totalitarian and extreme right-wing regime produced.  An awareness of the crimes that were commited in the concentration camps shoud be firmly anchored in our collective memory at the international level.  The most important way in which this awareness can be fostered is through the survivirs of the camps and their descendants who have played a vital role in keeping the memory alive.

According to a German translation service, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen was marked by commemorative events that honored the memory and paid homage on a global scale to all the victims who suffered in the camp.  One such event was the exhibition called „The Visible Part.“  It was initiated by the Spanish and French associations of ex-inmates of Mauthausen and was proposed to the Austrian Ministry of the Interior, which financed the project.  It was also a symbolic acceptance of guilt on the part of the Austrians, who are courageously facing up to their past along side their French and Spanish victims in a sort of European rememberance and peace initiative.