Reactions in Austria to the construction of an industrial facility on the site of a women’s wing of a concentration camp

Indignant reactions have been brought by the revelation by the Austrian press that an industrial-business facility is being planned on part of the area where a wing of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Mauthausen once operated. the preservation of the “historical and moral significance” of the place of martyrdom. The agency, which has been aware of the plan since 2021, explained that it has repeatedly tried to “bring the attention of decision-makers” to the history of the site, where the women’s wing of the Hirtenberg extermination camp was located, to the community Leobersdorf (northeast). But our “phone and written requests and offers for talks to examine together the possibilities of honoring the memory of the victims” were either “ignored” or “rejected”, his spokesperson Valerie Seifert told AFP. About 400 female prisoners were forced to work there The Austrian press revealed the sale, for 15.25 million euros, by the mayor’s real estate company, of the plot on which the […]
Source: News Beast

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