The following day, the guards of Mauthausen were replaced with unarmed Volkssturm soldiers and an improvised unit formed of elderly police officers and fire fighters evacuated from Vienna.
Nasledujúci deň vystriedali mauthausenské stráže neozbrojení vojaci Volkssturmu a improvizovaná jednotka zložená zo starších viedenských policajtov a požiarnikov.