Mauthausen Camp
This camp was located in Mauthausen, Austria. Mauthausen was one of the largest labour camps in Europe by the summer of 1940. The two main camps, Mauthausen and Gusen I were intended to be the toughest camps for the nation. The goal of this camp was to kill the people through labor; especially the educated people of the higher social classes. In the fall of 1939, the start of the World War II, prisoners of Dachau were relocated at the concentration camps at Mauthausen. Peter van Daan is a person who Otto Frank, Anne Franks father, had protected during the time of imprisonment. Anne talked about Peter in her diary. Peter and Otto were assigned in the same work group. Peter joined the death march because he thought he would have a better chance of living if he did, Otto tried to get Peter to hide in Auschwitz with him but he declined him. Peter was registered in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp on January 25, 1945. Peter died in the sick building when he was 18 years old on May 1945 in Austria. This camp is now a museum for people to visit.
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