Thousands of people took part Sunday in the solemn ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp, an event that has been held annually since 1946 on the initiative of the survivors and their associations.
The slave labour camp in upper Austria was known for its extremely harsh conditions, considered to be even more severe than in other Nazi German death camps. It held nearly 190,000 prisoners during World War II, half of whom did not survive.
