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Commemoration in Mauthausen

Mauthausen
May 10, 2009

Mauthausen Komitee - Comité International de Mauthausen
65th Division Association

Robert Patton, veteran of the U.S. 65th Infantry Division, talks about the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp ( video)
Chargé d'Affaires Scott Kilner talks about the importance of the memorial ceremony at the former concentration camp( video)

Chargé d’Affaires Scott F. Kilner, U.S. Embassy Vienna, headed the U.S. delegation at a wreath-laying ceremony on May 10 at the former Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria. The Nazi camp and sub-camps were liberated in May 1945 by elements of the 11th Armored, 65th and 26th 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, 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.


The U.S. delegation with Andrew Sternberg from the International Mauthausen Committee, Chargé d'Affaires Scott Kilner, U.S. Embassy Vienna, Defense Attaché Col. Ulises Soto, U.S. Embassy Vienna.	Chargé d'Affaires Scott Kilner giving his remarks in front of the plaques commemorating the units of the U.S. Army that liberated Mauthausen in 1945.


Mr. Robert Patton, veteran of the 65th Infantry Division and one of the liberators of camp Mauthausen, in conversation with Defense Attaché Col. Ulises Soto (left), and Air Attaché Col. Rich McCleary (right, both U.S. Embassy Vienna).	F.l.t.r.: Col. McCleary, Mr. Andrew Sternberg and Mr. Arnold Kaufman from the International Mauthausen Committee.