Linz is the capital of Upper Austria, and sits on a 1,768 ft high hill on the left bank of the Danube. Our afternoon was filled with a sobering and informative visit to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. This complex was one of the Nazi’s first large-scale concentration camps and was the last to be liberated. High profile Jewish prisoners and captive Russian soldiers were brought to the camp to work as free labor for the local stone quarry, harvesting and hauling granite blocks which were used to build the Camp. Simon Wiesenthal was a former prisoner here.
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