BOIX: That is the same visit to Mauthausen by police officials in June
or July 1941. This is the kitchen door. The prisoners standing there had
been sent to the disciplinary company. They used that little appliance
on their backs for carrying stones up to a weight of 80 kilos, until
they were exhausted. Very few men ever came back from the disciplinary
company.
This picture shows Himmler’s visit to the Führerheim at Camp Mauthausen
in April 1941. It shows Himmler with the Governor of Linz in the
background and Obersturmbannführer Ziereis, the commanding officer of
Camp Mauthausen, on his left.
This picture was taken in the quarry. In the rear, to the left, you see
a group of deportees at work. In the foreground are Franz Ziereis,
Himmler, and Obergruppenführer Kaltenbrunner. He is wearing the gold
Party emblem.