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Minister Karner and Minister Tanner Remembered the Victims at Melk Concentration Camp
It was 60 years ago on March 13 that the former Melk concentration camp (KZ) was dedicated as a public memorial. Together with Defense Minister Tanner, Interior Minister Karner commemorates the victims of the Melk concentration camp.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner and Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner Commemorated the Victim of the Melk Concentration Camp / Picture: © BMI Bundesministerium für Inneres / Jürgen Makowecz
The Melk subcamp was one of the largest camps in the Mauthausen concentration camp system. From its founding in April 1944 until its dissolution one year later, more than 14,000 prisoners were deported to Melk. There, they had to construct a 65,000 square-meter tunnel facility with the camouflage name "Quarz" for the armaments industry.
About one-third of the prisoners perished…
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