The prisoners look at the SS officer passing them – this is supposedly Franz Ziereis, commandant of the Mauthausen death camp.
Mauthausen prisoners are building a “Russian concentration camp” in the German city of Mauthausen.
Sources of information about the Mauthausen photo:
1. www.crdp.ac-creteil.fr
2. fcit.usf.edu
Location: Austria
Date: 1942