This photo taken on August 22, 2026 shows a heavily overgrown concrete wall in the woods of Hirtenberg, Austria, that is part of the remaining ruins of the historic Patronenfabrik ammunition factory and KZ-related infrastructure. A few crumbling concrete blocks in an overgrown field are all that remains visible of what was once a sprawling Nazi forced labour complex around the Austrian town of Leobersdorf. Now, plans to build a business park on the site, including a cold storage warehouse and branch of the discount supermarket chain Lidl, have sparked anger in the Alpine nation, which long neglected to address its Nazi past. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the Weinberglager complex was used for thousands of prisoners of war, forced labourers, and later included the Hirtenberg subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp -- Austria's second-largest women-only camp. Around 400 women, mainly from the Soviet Union but also from Italy and Poland, were forced to manufacture infantry munitions between September 1944 and April 1945 at the Hirtenberg site. After the war, the barracks and other structures were gradually demolished, repurposed or destroyed. (Photo by Jure Cufer / AFP via Getty Images)

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