Construction of tunnel-system was nearly finished and installations operational for some 85%. Strategic War Production US investgators in front of the G1 and G2 railway entrance of the KZ Gusen II "Bergkristall" underground plant (June/July 1945 Me-262 fuselage in lower right corner)Īccording to Allied intelligence, some 987 jet propelled planes left serial production lines. He became beatified by Pope John Paul II.
One of the many not so well known victims of the KL Gusen II “BERGKRISTALL” plant had been the young french youth activist Marcel Callo. So, many died in unopend railway cars at the local station, froze to death or were killed by the many other cruelties of the KZ Gusen II “extermination” camp. With Winter 1944/45 more deportations came in than lives were consumed, by construction and production. Haunschmied, "300 Jahre erweitertes Marktrecht St. Increase of number of inmates and development of production at the Gusen complex after the foundation of KZ Gusen II (Source: Rudolf A. Haunschmied, “300 Jahre erweitertes Marktrecht St. A vast number of the Jewish man were exterminated by hardest labor at the tunnel construction site. Main deportations came form KL Auschwitz-Birkenau and western Europe (France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg) when Nazi-troops had to move out this countries due to military pressure of the Allied Forces.
Slave Work by KZ Gusen II InmatesĬonstructed within 13 months by prisoners of the KZ Gusen II concentration camp within the Mauthausen-Gusen complex it became one of the most horrible concentration camp sites in European history due to its high mortality of up to 98% (average survival period 4 months). According to Allied intelligence reports, it was “one of the most modern and most complete underground plants in Germany”. With more than 50.000 m2 (some 8,5 km tunnnel length) one of the biggest german underground installations that reached production status in late 1944. Al Kosiek & 23 men of 1st Platoon Troop D, 41st Cav Recon Sqdrn, 11th ArdDiv, 3rd US-Army
The “BERGKRISTALL” Underground Plant at St.
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