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<div style="background:#dde; font-size:86%; direction:ltr;">For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the <b>original image captions</b>, which may be <b>erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme</b>. <abbr class="BArchtooltips" title="Files from the inventories “Bild 101 Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht” and “Bild 183 ADN” may have particularly biased or politically extreme descriptions."><img alt="Info non-talk.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Info_non-talk.svg/15px-Info_non-talk.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Info_non-talk.svg/23px-Info_non-talk.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Info_non-talk.svg/30px-Info_non-talk.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="62" data-file-height="62"></abbr></div><div class="language de"><b>Kz Mauthausen, Besuch Heinrich Himmler, Franz Ziereis</b>
<p>Zentralbild, 1.3.1957
Mauthausen ... Heinrich Himmler visiting Mauthausen which was opened on August 8, 1938, a few months after the Anschluss of Austria and Germany on March 12, 1938, which marked the beginning of Adolf Hitler's drive through Europe. The site for the camp was chosen by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS , and the man who had authority over all the camps. The location was in farm country, but near the Wienergraben, a municipal quarry which supplied the city of Wien (Vienna) with granite stones. The quarry was near the city of Linz - April 1941. See also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa11546">USHMM record</a>.
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<ul><li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" class="extiw" title="de:Heinrich Himmler">Himmler, Heinrich</a>: Reichsführer der SS, Deutschland  (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GND" title="Commons:GND">GND</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/11855123X">11855123X</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Kaltenbrunner" class="extiw" title="en:Ernst Kaltenbrunner">Kaltenbrunner, Ernst</a>  Dr. jur.: SS, später (1943) Chef des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes, Deutschland</li>
<li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Eigruber" class="extiw" title="de:August Eigruber">Eigruber, August</a>: Gauleiter in Oberdonau/Ostmark, Österreich  (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GND" title="Commons:GND">GND</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://d-nb.info/gnd/127548963">127548963</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Ziereis" class="extiw" title="en:Franz Ziereis">Ziereis, Franz</a>: SS-Sturmbannführer, Lagerkommandant des KZ Mauthausen, Deutschland</li>
<li><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Bachmayer" class="extiw" title="de:Georg Bachmayer">Bachmayer, Georg</a>: SS-Hauptsturmführer, Kommandant im KZ Mauthausen, Deutschland</li></ul></div></div>
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Paul Ricken (1892–1964)</div>
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