Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (lit. Saint George's Town near Gusen) is a small market town in Upper Austria, between the municipalities of Mauthausen and Gusen. As of 2001, the town had 3,533 inhabitants. Saint-George is a municipality with 695 inhabitants (as of 2003) in the district of Aubonne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Upper Austria (Ober sterreich) is one of the nine federal states or Bundesl nder of Austria. ... Mauthausen is a small town in Upper Austria about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 - A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattles Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous...

During the World War II the town was a site of one of the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system. In roughly 4000m² of tunnels and caverns dug beneath St. Georgen for the Messerschmitt company an assembly plant of Messerschmitt Me 262 and V-2 rocket fuselage factory was opened. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead:17 million Civilian dead:33 million Total dead:50 million Military dead:8 million Civilian dead:4 million Total dead:12 million World War II... Mauthausen (from summer 1940, Mauthausen-Gusen; German: ) was a group of Nazi German concentration camps centred around the small town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria, about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz. ... Messerschmitt is a famous German aircraft manufacturer, known primarily for their World War II fighter aircraft, notably the Bf 109 and Me 262. ... Messerschmitt Me 262A The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe or swallow was the first operational jet powered fighter. ... The V-2 rocket or Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Retaliation Weapon 2) was an early ballistic missile used by the German Army during the later stages of World War II against mostly British and Belgian targets. ...