Gusen Camps Trial — Introduction

(June 13-24, 1947)

Holocaust History students at Pima Community College wanted to cooperate with the local residents of St. Georgen an der Gusen, Langenstein, and Lungitz, Austria, and with the international community of Gusen survivors, in providing documentation of the history of KZ Gusen I, II, and III. The students took on the project of summarizing the Dachau trial transcripts relating to the Gusen camps in the interest of making the history more available to both scholars and interested readers. Mindful that some people might not be able to open electronic files easily, we wanted to guide them to specific pages to facilitate their research. Unlike concentration camps in remote areas, KZ Gusen I and II were built in the municipalities of Langenstein and St. Georgen to perform murder through labor in the Kastenhof and Gusen quarries and, later, in underground armament factories dug out of the mountains by slave labor.