A plan to change the former Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen into a permanent monument to “honor the victims who died for a free, independent and democratic Austria,” has been accepted by the Austrian Government, the New York Times reported today in a Vienna dispatch. The gas chambers, crematoria and special cells in which Jewish prisoners were tortured to death will be reserved; as will be five of the former 24 barracks, the report said.
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