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Commemoration in Mauthausen

Mauthausen
May 18, 2008

Chargé d’Affaires Scott F. Kilner, U.S. Embassy Vienna, headed the U.S. delegation at a wreath-laying ceremony May 18 at the infamous Mauthausen concentration camp in upper Austria. The Nazi camp and a sub-camp were liberated in May, 1945 by elements of the 11 th Armored and 26 th Infantry divisions, part of General George S. Patton’s Third Army. Several thousand onlookers and numerous official contingents, including camp survivors, attended. The U.S. group also included the Embassy Air Attaché, four military representatives from the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and a U.S. Marine color guard. A camp survivor and U.S. citizen, Andrew Sternberg, marched alongside the Chargé.


Lt. Col. Scott McCleary, Chargé d'Affaires Scott Kilner, U.S. Embassy Vienna, and Mr Andrew Sternberg from the International Mauthausen Committee at the wreath-laying ceremony	Members of the Marine color guard talking to Andrew Sternberg, survivor of the Mauthausen camp


F.l.t.r.: Mr Vincent Mahler, veteran of the 11th Armored Division, one of the liberators of the Mauthausen camp; Mr James Lichtmann, liberated from Mauthausen on May 5, 1945	Chargé d'Affaires Scott Kilner and Andrew Sternberg among the guests of honor. Right: Members of the Austrian government, Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and President Heinz Fischer