The liberation 79 years ago was commemorated in the former Mauthausen concentration camp on Sunday. More than 9,000 guests came, including contemporary witnesses, government representatives and more than 3,000 young people.
The largest celebration of the liberation of the concentration camps in the world is traditionally attended every year by numerous international delegations and representatives from politics and society, who lay wreaths at the sarcophagus on the former roll call area and commemorate the victims.
100,000 victims in concentration camps
It was recalled that approximately 200,000 people were imprisoned, tortured and about half of them murdered in the Mauthausen concentration camp and its more than forty subcamps. “That was all the law at the time.” On May 7, 1945, the concentration camp was liberated by the 11th Armored Division of the Third American Army.
Nazi-era legal system highlighted
This year’s thematic focus “Law and Justice in National Socialism” made it clear that law does not always mean justice. The Nazis created a legal system that reflected their ideology and enabled the persecution, dispossession, and murder of Jews, Roma, and other groups.
Many guests from politics
Official Austria was represented on Sunday by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen, Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner and Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler (both ÖVP), as well as Minister of Justice Alma Zadic, Minister of Social Affairs Johannes Rauch and Minister of Climate Protection Leonore Gewessler (all Greens). ). , and Upper Austrian Governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) took part in the memorial procession. Numerous representatives of the National Council, Federal Council, ÖVP, SPÖ, Greens, NEOS and KPÖ, religious communities and international guests from the countries of origin of the victims paid their respects.
Source: Krone
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