so, mauthausen did not have a large enough gas chamber or large enough crematorium, so in mauthausen they would throw the bodies into a big pit, and then burn them. next slide. here is the commandante of mauthausen, he was caught after the war and executed by the americans. next slide. so from mauthausen, we were moved to, after a week or two, we were moved to another camp, which was called melk, and i don't know, i don't know if melk is on this map, but from melk, after being in melk for about three months, we went back to mauthausen, you can see mauthausen on the upper right part of the map, and then around the first or second of may, of 1945, we did another death march all the way from mauthausen down to the left here, where you see the name wells, right below wells is a little town called gunscherskin, to the left of wells, and we were basically, we walked for two days, again, another death march, a lot of people dying on the way. we ended up in gunscherskin, which i refer to as a human dump. literally, we were dumped into these woods, and the camp was nothing but a bunch of tree

on may seventh the train left old ram of its its original destination the mauthausen concentration camp had meanwhile being liberated rumors began to spread among the prisoners that the germans planned to kill them before they fell into the hands of the allies. for the prisoners every hour that passed only increased their danger knowing how many prisoners had been shot along side the tracks during the journey the checks were determined to liberate the train before it could cross the border. check resistance groups who were assembled at the station in chess computers of its gave the order to hold the train at validation on may eighth. here near the border there was a hill that the train of this length could only muster with the second locomotive. the czech railway workers pulled off a major coup with perfect timing they stopped the push locomotive at a junction and set the signal on the open track to read resistance fighters and a renegade group of russian soldiers waiting for the train. so this was a corridor which no foreign armies had entered yet. only the so-called glass off army was