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The Mühlviertler Hasenjagd was a Nazi war crime that took place near Linz in the Mühlviertel, a region in Upper Austria. In February 1945, around 500 Soviet prisoners escaped from Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in the Mühlviertel. Local civilians, soldiers and local Nazi organizations hunted down the escapees for three weeks, murdering most of them. Of the original 500 prisoners who took part in the escape attempt, eleven succeeded in remaining free until the end of the war. The SS later referred to the three-week search as a ''hasenjagd'', or "rabbit chase". The outbreak itself and that some escaped were unique in Mauthausen's history. == Breakout and escape == №20 Mauthausen was a camp within the camp, separated from the total area by a fence 2.5 meters high, on top of which was barbed wire. Along the perimeter there were three towers with machine guns. Prisoners of 20th block received a quarter of the food of other prisoners. They had no spoons, or plates. The block was never heated. The window openings had no frames or glass. The block did not even have bunks. In the winter, before the prisoners were driven inside, the SS hosed the floor unit with water. People went into the water and just do not wake up. "The condemned" had a "privilege" - they did not work as the other prisoners. Instead, they spent all day doing "exercise" - non-stop running around the block or crawling. During the existence of the block it destroyed about 6 thousand people. By the end of January, in block №20 about 570 people remained alive.〔("Russian do not surrender" ) ответы на незаданные вопросы〕 In the night hours of February 2, 1945, some 500 "K" prisoners, mostly Soviet officers from barracks 20, known as the "death barracks" (''Todesblock'') made an attempt to escape Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.〔Ernst Gusenbauer, ("Was man erwischt, wird kalt erschossen: Ried in der Riedmark und die Mühlviertler Hasenjagd 2. Februar 1945" ) (PDF) ''Oberösterreichicher Heimatblätter'' Vol. 46, Heft 2 (1992) pp. 263-267. Retrieved May 8, 2010 〕 Using fire extinguishers from the barracks and blankets and boards as projectiles, one group attacked and occupied a watch tower while a second group used wet blankets and bits of clothing to cause a short circuit in the electrified fence. The prisoners then climbed over the fence.〔(Mauthausen Memorial, official website ) See Concentration camp > History 1938-1945 > Disease, Violence, Death > "Mühlviertel rabbit chase". Article on the Mühlviertel Hasenjagd with photos and eyewitness testimony. Retrieved May 7, 2010〕〔("Mauthausen Concentration Camp - Commemoration and Reflection" ) City of Vienna, official website. Retrieved May 7, 2010〕 Of those 500, 419 prisoners did manage to leave the camp grounds〔Alphons Matt, ''Einer aus dem Dunkel'', (1988) p. 75 〕 but many escapees were already too weakened from starvation to reach the woods and collapsed in the snow outside the camp, where they were shot that night by SS machine guns. All who failed to reach the woods, and another 75 prisoners in the barracks who had remained behind because they were too sick to follow, were executed that night. Over 300 prisoners reached the woods on the first night.〔〔("Memorial 'Mühlviertler Hasenjagd'" ) Retrieved May 7, 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mühlviertler Hasenjagd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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