The Austrian government has authorized the construction of a new $100,000 memorial at the former Nazi concentration comp at Mauthausen, which now houses a museum, government sources said today. Construction will begin later this year. Interior Minister Erwin Lanc said “This is an important development. More and more people are getting down to the problem of Nazi ideology and its terrible consequences.”
Mauthausen served as background for many sequences of the recent film “Holocaust” broadcast by the NBC television network in April. More than 112,000 persons visited the museum there last year, an increase of 15,000 over the previous year.
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