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Austria Allows Supermarket to Be Built in a Former Women's Concentration Camp: “Deep Lack of Historical Awareness”

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In Hirtenberg, a former women's subcamp of Mauthausen where around 400 prisoners were forced to manufacture munitions for the Nazi war industry—many of them Jewish women deported from Auschwitz—the construction of a business park that will include a Lidl supermarket and a logistics center is generating controversy. The urban development project, intended to boost the local economy, is seen as an "irreversible loss."

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In Hirtenberg, a former women's subcamp of Mauthausen where around 400 prisoners were forced to manufacture munitions for the Nazi war industry—many of them Jewish women deported from Auschwitz—the construction of a business park that will include a Lidl supermarket and a logistics center is generating controversy. The urban development project, intended to boost the local economy, is seen as an "irreversible loss."

·Paço de Arcos, Portugal
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In Leobersdorf, the site of a place marked by the horrors of the Holocaust will host a commercial business park, despite protests from local associations.

·Paris, France
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Liberation broke the news in Paris, France on Saturday, August 1, 2026.
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