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within ARBEITSKREIS FUER HEIMAT-, DENKMAL- UND GESCHICHTSPFLEGE (AHDG)
and Local-International Platform ST. GEORGEN/GUSEN, Austria

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KZ Gusen III
Concentration Camp at Lungitz

Establishment

This camp was established near the brick production-plant at Lungitz (some 4 km north of Gusen) with Summer 1943.

Nevertheless it was December 16, 1944 that this camp was administered officially as a satellite of KZ Gusen II (BERGKRISTALL).

Prior to 1943, KZ Gusen inmates were already used as work-force in the brick production-plant. But when this plant became closed in 1943, nearly all of the plant was used to store aircraft parts.

Purpose

The brick production-plantīs storage facilities stored Me-262 jet-planes parts that were assembled serially at the KZ Gusen II (BERGKRISTALL/ESCHE 2) underground installation at St.Georgen/Gusen.

Furthermore, the railway-station near the KZ Gusen III (Lungitz) was used to direct railway-wagons that brought Me-262 parts from all around the Third Reich into the BERGKRISTALL underground plant at St.Georgen/Gusen.

In February 1945, a "bakery" was set into operation to make bread for some 40,000 inmates of the KZ Mauthausen-Gusen I, II & III system of camps (in those days the KZ Gusen I, II & III camps with some 25,000 had double the number of inmates than the Mauthausen central camp with some 12,000 at that time).

Liberation

KZ Gusen III Camp was the first camp in the Mauthausen-Gusen system to be liberated on May 5, 1945 by S/Sgt. Al Kosiek and 23 men of the 41st Recon Squad, 11th Ard Div, 3rd US Army.


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