In 1945, Nazi Germany carried out its final gas chamber executions at Mauthausen
In the final days of World War II, the Nazi regime utilized the gas chambers at Mauthausen one last time to execute a group of political resistance leaders.
On April 28, 1945, just days before the camp's liberation, Nazi officials at Mauthausen carried out their final systematic executions using gas. The victims were 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders who had been arrested for their roles in the resistance movement.
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