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| Swastika graffiti at Nazi concentration camp |
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The gate with watch tower is seen inside of the former World War II concentration camp of Mauthausen, on April 17, 2013. The police announced on February 2, 2015 that unknown persons had desecrated the memorial site by painting swastikas on the wall of one of the camp's buildings. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KLEIN.
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VIENNA (AFP).- Austrian police said Monday they have launched an investigation after vandals drew and etched four swastikas onto walls inside two buildings at the former Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen.
The culprits also scrawled "Hitler" in letters about one centimetre (half an inch) high in felt-tip pen, police said in a statement. The graffiti were noticed by visitors to the camp, now a museum and memorial.
"When this vandalism took place is unclear. Most likely it was carried out by visitors," police said.
Some 200,000 people, around a quarter of them Jewish, from 40 nations were incarcerated at Mauthausen, set in rolling hills just north of the Danube river near Linz, where Hitler went to school.
Around 90,000 didn't make it, perishing in back-breaking labour in granite quarries from malnourishment, disease -- or shot by the guards, hanged, throttled, beaten to a pulp or gassed.
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