Death Marches

in German:
Todesmärsche

 

In the spring of 1945, the concentration camps of Vienna and eastern Austria were cleared before the advancing Soviet troops. Thousands of concentration camp prisoners and thousands of Jews from Hungary, who had been involved in the construction of the south-eastern rampart, were sent on death marches through Lower Austria and Styria towards the concentration camp Mauthausen. Not only concentration camp henchmen were involved in their cruel murder, but for the first time the civilian population was also involved. The film follows the traces of these events with the help of surviving eyewitnesses and newly discovered photographic material.

in German:
Im Frühling des Jahres 1945 wurden die KZ-Lager Wiens und des östlichen Österreichs vor den vorrückenden sowjetischen Truppen geräumt. Tausende KZ-Häftlinge und tausende Juden aus Ungarn, die an der Errichtung des Süd-Ostwalls beteiligt waren, wurden auf Todesmärschen durch Niederösterreich und die Steiermark in Richtung des KZ-Lagers Mauthausen geschickt. An ihrer grausamen Ermordung waren nicht nur KZ-Schergen, sondern erstmals auch die Zivilbevölkerung beteiligt. Der Film folgt den Spuren dieser Ereignisse an Hand von Zeitzeugen und neu aufgetauchten Bilddokumenten.

Kurt Mayer Film

in German:
Kurt Mayer Film

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02 Mar 2018

documentary film

Commemoration / remembrance

National Fund budget

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