Eleventh

In 1938 the Nazi party began construction of their largest and most horrific instrument of death. Over the next seven years, Mauthausen would work, torture and put to death more than 250,000 political dissidents, homosexuals, outsiders, Russians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma, and Jews. This is a meditation on what took place there. The audio is taken from two sources, the "Wiener Graben," a death quarry operated on the backs of the prisoners, and a thirty second clip from inside the gas chamber.

Meditation No. 1