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St.Georgen BERGKRISTALL Construction Site

"St. Georgen Complex" , April 2, 1945, 01:30 p.m., 26,000 feet

One of the most modern German underground plants was built at St. Georgen/Gusen from inmates of KZ Gusen II

In Winter 1943/1944 the SS decided to use the sand-hills of St.Georgen/Gusen
to hide one of the biggest German underground installations ever built.

Within 13 months several thousand prisoners from the newly founded KZ Gusen II camp
(just 3 km east of St. Georgen) built the giant B8-BERGKRISTALL-ESCHE-2 underground plant
for the serial production of the Messerschmitt Me-262 jet-plane.

This giant underground plant dominated production in the warīs final phase.

In operation by early 1945, the plant was responsible for many thousands of the deaths at the Mauthausen-Gusen complex.

Thousands of Jewish men were deported to Gusen to die during this plantīs conctruction.

At the warīs end, the SS planned to kill the surviving tens of thousands
of Mauthausen-Gusen complex inmates by blowing them up in the tunnels.

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