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Mauthausen: The History of a Death Camp, by Evelyn Le Chene. 1971. Methuen & Co, Ltd, London

No Artificial Dichotomy: Considerable Overlap in the Deaths of Jews and the Goyim

Notice the Title of this book. The author uses the term “death camp” to refer to Mauthausen. This term has since been usurped: The Holocaustspeak co-option of the term “death camp” now conveniently refers only to places where mass gassings of Jews took place. This is a newfangled artificial dichotomy. At Mauthausen, most inmates died from causes other than gassing (p. 84), and most victims were not Jews, but this did not diminish Mauthausen as a death camp by one iota. Le Chene recognizes as much, “In Mauthausen, as in all camps geared to mass extermination, mechanical refinements such as the gas car were introduced.” (p. 80. Emphasis added).

BLURRED NAZI INTENTIONALITY BEHIND THE MURDERS OF VICTIMS

Nowadays, the Holocaust establishment creates a profound and artificial dichotomy between the deaths of Jews and non-Jews at the hands of the Nazi Germans. This was not at all the case.

At Mauthausen, just as in all other Nazi German camps, the intentionality behind the killings were blurred. Not all Jews that fell into the hands of the Nazis were killed–Nazi ideology notwithstanding. On the other hand, the goyim that were killed by the Nazis often died for nebulous reasons. Le Chene drives this point home, “The dividing lines between indiscriminate killing and torture, mass murder and authorized executions, are most difficult to define in a camp which was given completely given over to the extermination of its inmates. All too often in the quarries men died because they were too weak to lift an extra-heavy load. How would one classify such a death? A newly arrived prisoner who looked strongly built and healthy would attract the attention of the SS as a red rag attracts a bull. They would pick on him to carry impossibly heavy stone slabs, with which he had to run up the 186 steps. When he finally collapsed, he would be executed. As they witnessed such things, the other prisoners would wonder when their turn would come.” (p. 66. Emphasis added).

JEWS TO DEATH CAMPS AND JEWS TO “ORDINARY” CONCENTRATION CAMPS

In the summer of 1944, the Nazis evacuated the Hungarian Jews, murdering hundreds of thousands of them at Auschwitz. During this time, they also dispatched thousands of Jews to Mauthausen. (pp. 139-on). This further reinforces the fact that an artificial dichotomy exists between Nazi German death camps and “ordinary” Nazi German concentration camps.

GERMANS OFTEN TREATED JEWS NO WORSE THAN THEY TREATED NON-JEWS

Le Chene comments, “Productive Jews received smaller rations than productive non-Jews, but the sick, whether Jewish or not, were given even less than non-productive Jews.” (p. 93. Emphasis added).

Obviously, the Germans prioritized the deaths, from “natural” causes, of the sick. It did not matter if the sick were Jews or non-Jews. In other words, a sick productive goy got less rations than did a healthy non-productive Jew! Evidently, the deaths of the sick were more important to the Nazis than the deaths of Jews as presumed existential enemies!

NO ARTIFICIAL DICHOTOMY: DO NOT DIVIDE THE DEAD

The ways that the victims died should not be made into any kind of Jewish-serving victim hierarchy. Le Chene writes, “Most of the regular camp inmates were killed by shooting, hanging, beating, starvation, or disease, rather than by gassing. Medical experiments in injections of various fluids into the veins and heart also accounted for a good many deaths.” (p. 84). These victims of the criminal Third Reich were every bit as dead as the endlessly-highlighted 6 million Jews.

UNKNOWN DEATH TOLL: NOT ALL INMATES WERE REGISTERED

Judeocentrists never tire of reminding us that Jews were gassed, in places such as Auschwitz, without ever first being registered in the camp records. It turns out that this was true of many non-Jews as well! Le Chene writes, “It is estimated by former prisoners who worked in the administration office that some 25,000 people were murdered in Mauthausen under the ‘Kugel Aktion’…Neither their names nor their deaths were ever recorded, and this enormous total will never be shown on any graphs of camp death rates.” (p. 80). For more on this, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2025/10/03/pioneering-poles-lead-role-evil-german-vicarious-liability/

NOT ONLY JEWS WERE MURDERED UPON ARRIVAL

Much is said about arriving Jews immediately sent to their deaths at places such as Auschwitz. This was no Jewish-specific Nazi German conduct. The exact same thing happened in “ordinary” concentration camps, such as Mauthausen, and to certain non-Jewish arrivals. Le Chene comments, “‘K Aktion’ prisoners should not be confused with the special prisoners sent to Mauthausen for immediate execution, although both groups were housed in Block 20 and both met their deaths in similar ways. They were usually gassed, shot in the neck or hanged.” (p. 80. Emphasis added).

For more on non-registration of some non-Jewish arrivals and the murder-upon-arrival of non-Jews, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2021/03/14/jewish-disloyalty-1939-war-actual-number-of-polish-victims-of-german-concentration-camps-may-never-be-known-mass-gassing-of-poles-and-not-only-jews-coming-last-minute-non-jews-killed-too-would-be/

GAS CHAMBER DEATH TOLL AT MAUTHAUSEN

Holocaust supremacists have a fetish about Jews dying in gas chambers. They must be forced to freely acknowledge the fact that non-Jews also died in Nazi gas chambers. Again, no artificial dichotomy. Le Chene writes, “Witnesses estimate that between 1942 and 1945 approximately 10,000 prisoners were killed either in the gas van or in the gas chamber at Mauthausen.” (p. 85). Of course, because the victims were not primarily Jews, and Mauthausen was not primarily a Jew-killing center, these gassing victims are seldom mentioned in academia and media.

EXPLOITATION OF THE BODIES OF JEWS–AND OF NON-JEWS TOO

All we ever hear about is the removal of gold fillings from the bodies of murdered Jews. Even I did not know that the Germans did this to all victims. Again, there is no artificial dichotomy between Jews and non-Jews. The author writes, “Gold fillings were extracted as a matter of course from every dead body before incineration.” (p. 94). The crematorium was also not the exclusive destiny of dead Jews. The few long-term prisoners estimated that at least 45,000 Mauthausen inmates were cremated in four years. (p. 162).

THE GERMANS TARGET POLAND’S INTELLIGENTSIA

In contrast to the Judeocentrism of most WWII-related materials today, author Le Chene appreciates the non-Jewish victims of the Nazis. With regards to the nearby satellite camp at Gusen, located some six kilometers from Mauthausen, the author remarks, “Ninety percent of these prisoners were Poles…They were deposited on the quarry site where there was no shelter, no water, no sanitation–absolutely nothing. The Poles soon learned to invent imaginary professions for themselves. It was far too dangerous to admit to being a doctor, a lawyer or a member of any other profession. There is some evidence to show that Gusen was originally intended as a camp for the elimination of the Polish intelligentsia, and in its early days this was certainly so.” (pp. 201-202).

PLANNED EXTERMINATION OF POLES: MASS STERILIZATION

The author also points out that a large fraction of the Mauthausen inmates were Poles, and only a minority were Jews. (p. 166, 187). She is aware of long-term Nazi plans as she comments, “Sterilization was one of the means by which the Fuhrer was determined to cleanse his Master Race of the inferior, the deformed and the sex perverted. As part of this plan all gypsies, Poles, and any remaining Jews were to be sterilized.” (p. 86). Clearly, the usual artificial dichotomy between these groups fails again.

A JEWISH VENDETTA

Le Chene recounts the following incident, “In the winter of 1944, a deportation train took a number of Jewish children from Auschwitz to Mauthausen. When they reached their destination, they were asked whether the Jewish police who had accompanied them had treated them well. Apparently some had not and were pointed out. Their bodies were found the next morning and no questions were asked.” (p. 150).