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As early as 1943 spanish republicans incarcerated inside mauthausen drawing upon their expertise as communist fighters and their contacts to czech french and german members of the international brigades established small clandestine networks of resistance inside the camp. Mauthausen trial on march 7 1946 in dachau germany sixty one former camp personnel and prisoners from mauthausen were brought to trial in front of an american military tribunal. The mauthausen trial is both historically engaging and instructive in the post 9 l1 attempts to bring islamic terrorists to justicejardim explores one of the most notorious yet little known us army military commission trials of ww ii