Sankt Georgen an der Gusen

Infobox Town AT
name=Sankt Georgen an der Gusen
name_local=
image_coa = Wappen at st georgen an der gusen.png

state = Upper Austria
regbzk =
district = Perg
population =3533
population_as_of =15.05.2001
population_ref =
pop_dens =
area = 7
elevation = 262
lat_deg=48
lat_min=16
lat_sec=18
lat_hem=N
lon_deg=14
lon_min=26
lon_sec=54
lon_hem=E
postal_code = 4222
area_code =07237
licence = PE
mayor = Rudolf Honeder (SPÖ)
website = [http://www.st-georgen-gusen.at www.st-georgen-gusen.at]

Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (lit. "Saint George's Town on the Gusen River") is a small market town in Upper Austria, Austria, between the municipalities of Luftenberg and Langenstein. As of 2001, the town had 3,533 inhabitants.

During the World War II the town was selected to be the DEST-business administration center for exploiting the slave labour in the quarries and later the industries of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system. In early 1944 the town became the site of "Gusen 2" - the most brutal sub-camp of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system. In roughly 40.000 m² of tunnels and caverns dug beneath St. Georgen for the Messerschmitt company a huge and most modern underground assembly plant for Messerschmitt Me 262 fuselages was operated until May 1945 under the code-name "B8 Bergkristall - Esche II". [Rudolf A. Haunschmied, Jan-Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany-Durda: "St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered". BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7610-5] In some trials of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal the relatively unknown term "St. Georgen granite works" was used to prevent the use of locations like "Mauthausen" or "Gusen".

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