Amstetten was also a work camp, one of sixty "subcamps" in Austria, stemming from the main camp of Mauthausen (which was supposed to be a "special" penal prison with the emphasis upon extreme punishment). Mauthausen itself was built near the banks of the beautiful blue Danube (which is neither beautiful these days, nor blue), near a quarry, with prison labor from Dachau.

Labor from Amstetten was used - no irony here at all - to provide labor for a nearby armaments factory. So you can be worked to death making the very tools that are killing your friends, loved ones, and liberators.

And Bock, who sent me down this path, made Google's number four listing when I started this research.

A list of companies who profited from death labor in Nazi Germany: Steyr-Daimler-Puch, Bayer, Heinkel, etc. These are companies you know today (or you should). Actually, everyone should really take a good hard look at companies who were operating in Europe during WW2. You would be amazed at who is still around - and who in some way profited from slave labor. And let's talk about all that looted artwork, jewelry, and money still kicking around in Swiss accounts, or hanging out in people's private collections. I recently saw that a family had filed suit against another family in a small German hamlet - evidently, family B had on display the artwork that they had stolen from the grandparents of Family A when they had arrested the grandparents of Family A and had them executed for being Jews. Family B is protesting. I think Family B looses - normally, I don't think you hold the sins of the father against the children but in this case I think the right thing to do is to GIVE THE SHIT BACK. Who wants something tainted with blood?

The more I look, the more I see people telling the world that the Nazi past of Amstetten has nothing to do with current events, and would we all please move along. I suppose it is human nature to look for precedent....