ABSTRACT
If Mauthausen was the last SS camp to be liberated, precisely because it was the farthest from the advancing Allied armies, Ebensee was the last of its Nebenlager to be reached, for exactly the same reason. If every other camp in the SS archipelago had some place somewhere to which the prisoners could be evacuated, Ebensee had none, and convoys of prisoners from other camps continued to arrive, even in May 1945: four convoys on 3 May, 1 and two, both from Neuengamme and totalling 420 prisoners, on 4 May. 2 This brought the total of prisoners at Ebensee on that day to 16 468, 3 a third of whom were dying in the Sanitätslager.
