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Nazi death camp undergoes renovation

Extensive renovation work at Third Reich forced labour camp Mauthausen started this morning, it has been reported.

Christian D�rr, head of the former concentration camp�s archive, said today (Weds) that the memorial�s overall appearance will be improved during the next two years. He added that the installation of a new exhibition was planned as well.

D�rr explained some contents of the current exhibit � set up in 1970 � needed to be updated considering results of research over the past few years.

The Nazis imprisoned around 200,000 members of the Jewish community, gypsies, mentally and physically disabled people and political opponents at the camp located in Upper Austria from 1938. Around half of them died before the Allied Troops freed the camp in 1945.

The outer wall of the forced labour camp was defaced in February 2009 and earlier this year.

Vandals sprayed German-language slogans saying: "The progeny of Muslims are for us what the Jews were to our fathers. Be on your guard. A third world war � an eighth crusade". In the earlier attack last March the walls were defaced with a German sentence saying: "The blood of Turks and Jews is poisonous".

Police are still investigating both incidents.

Austrian Times

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Frank Ettenberg wrote on 08. 09. 2010 from Wien about "Nazi death camp undergoes..."

I've noticed that - in the course of several visits to Mauthausen KZ - over the years, the appearance of the camp is increasingly sanitized, one gets less and less the impression that this was, in fact, a death camp & was so designed. The gas chamber now has no more plumbing visible and no clarification of where the gas was let into the room. The visitor is only left to guess ( and who knows how forthcoming any guided tours might be )what went on in these rooms....

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