Your private guide will pick you up at your hotel in a Mercedes limousine/van or Tesla. You will embark on a 2-hour scenic drive from Vienna to across lower Austria. During your journey your guide will share with you the historic background to your tour. Your tour vehicle offers extra large windows and plenty of space. Wireless Internet and cold still water are free on board.

 

From 1938 to 1945, the Mauthausen concentration camp was at the center of a system of over 40 sub camps and was the main site of political, social and racist persecution by the National Socialist regime on Austrian territory. Of a total of around 190,000 people imprisoned here, at least 90,000 were murdered.

arrival you will explore the preserved historic premises of the Mauthausen Memorial. You will see the Wiener-Graben quarry, the Stairs of Death, the SS-Quarters, the Camp Prison, the Gas Chamber, and visit the newly re-opened Mauthausen Museum with the Room of Names. Honor the victims by learning about this crucial period in history. At

 

Upon Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Upper Austria was one of the largest labor camp complexes in the Third Reich. Between 1938 and 1945 about 200,000 people from all over Europe were imprisoned in Mauthausen. About half of them lost their lives. Today, Mauthausen Memorial honors the memory of those who perished here by standing as a reminder to the darkest days in Austria’s history. 

 

You will be driven back to Vienna and dropped of at your hotel.