Mauthausen Liberation Film

This film contains graphic concentration camp footage from Mauthausen. To see the film, you should have the most recent version of RealPlayer. To download a free copy, click below. We also recommend that when you are asked whether you want to view the file from its current location or save the file to your disk that you choose the current location.


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This film was taken shortly after the liberation of Mauthausen. It features an American OSS officer, Lt. Jack Taylor, who was imprisoned in the camp and describes conditions there. There is no sound in the film until Taylor appears. Pictures are quite graphic. For more information on Taylor and other Americans who were sent to Mauthausen, see Mitchell G. Bard, Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps. CO: Westview Press, 1994.
Source: United States Department of Justice and Nizkor.