The “Mauthausen Stairs of Death”, where prisoners were forced to carry granite blocks,often weighing as much as 110pounds,up 186 steps of the quarry in Mauthausen concentration camp,Austria. Exhausted prisoners often collapsed & fell on top of other prisoners,creating a horrifich domino effect,1942.

The “Mauthausen Stairs of Death”, where prisoners were forced to carry granite blocks,often weighing as much as 110pounds,up 186 steps of the quarry in Mauthausen concentration camp,Austria. Exhausted prisoners often collapsed & fell on top of other prisoners,creating a horrifich domino effect,1942.