Escape from Mauthausen

Escape from Mauthausen

29m 54s

Nazi concentration camp

European cinema

In 1942, very Spanish prisoners devised a plan to escape from Mauthausen. Until then, no one had managed to escape alive from the Nazi concentration camp.

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