Concentration Camp Letter from Mauthhausen
This letter was written by Franz Bischoff, who was detained by the Nazi police during WW2 on suspicion of treason. In this letter, Bischoff writes to his family back home as a way to tell them he was alive. Due to Nazi censorship, the letter is intentionally vague to avoid further scrutiny. However, Mauthhausen, the camp where this letter was written, was far from tame. The camp is infamous for the “Stairs of Death” . They gained their notoriety from the lives lost in tortuous exercises the Nazi guards would put the prisoners through.
This letter was written by Franz Bischoff, who was detained by the Nazi police during WW2 on suspicion of treason. In this letter, Bischoff writes to his family back home as a way to tell them he was alive. Due to Nazi censorship, the letter is intentionally vague to avoid further scrutiny. However, Mauthhausen, the camp where this letter was written, was far from tame. The camp is infamous for the “Stairs of Death” . They gained their notoriety from the lives lost in tortuous exercises the Nazi guards would put the prisoners through.