| Caption | Reich Commissioner Heinrich Himmler inspecting the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, 27 Apr 1941; the others were, left to right: Gauleiter August Eigruber (over Ziereis's right shoulder), Commandant Franz Ziereis (to Himmler's right), SS-Obersturmführer August Schmidhuber (over Ziereis's left shoulder), General Karl Wolff (behind Himmler), and Franz Kutschera (right edge of photo) ww2dbase | ||||||||||
| Photographer | Unknown | ||||||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseGerman Federal Archives | ||||||||||
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| Identification Code | Bild 192-111 | ||||||||||
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| Photo Size | 736 x 490 pixels | ||||||||||
| Photos on Same Day | 27 Apr 1941 | ||||||||||
| Photos at Same Place | Mauthausen, Austria | ||||||||||
| Added By | David Stubblebine | ||||||||||
| Licensing | Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany License (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE).
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Left to right are Gauleiter August Eigruber, camp commandant Franz Ziereis (who was executed for war crimes in 1945), SS-General August Schmidhuber, SS-Chief Heinrich Himmler, Himmler’s chief of staff Karl Wolff, and at the edge of the photograph Warsaw police chief Franz Kutschera (who was assassinated 1 Feb 1944 on orders from the Polish government in exile).