00:00Some in the Austrian town of Lieberstorf were angered to find that the construction of a business park was approved
00:06on the grounds that were once a Nazi campsite.
00:09The former Weinberglager was used by the Nazis after it was annexed from Austria in 1938, where thousands of forced
00:17laborers and prisoners of war were housed.
00:19It later included the Herzenberg sub-camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of Austria's largest sites exclusively for women.
00:28Around 400 women, mainly from the Soviet Union but also from Italy and Poland, were imprisoned at the Herzenberg sub
00:35-camp between 1944 and 1945 and forced to manufacture infantry munitions at a nearby factory complex.
00:43Plans to build on the plot, which sits around 40 kilometers south of the capital Vienna, and has for a
00:49long time been an empty overgrown field, were first announced in 2024.
00:54Construction is now underway for the controversial business park, which is set to open its doors to various businesses upon
01:01completion in the coming 15 months.
01:04Popular German discount supermarket chain Lidl is among the enterprises who have announced plans to utilize the new complex, including
01:11a new branch and a cold storage warehouse.
01:14They have, however, detailed that their units in the business park would not be housed directly on the former concentration
01:20camp, but in an adjacent plot of land.
01:23The site developers, in hopes of cooling public outrage, have offered to build a memorial on site to acknowledge the
01:30dark history and suffering that took place.
01:32The site Nationals
