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Writer's pictureMeggi Bogle

Hares' Hunting

Updated: Jul 31, 2023



To distinguish the 3rd Reich project and related cases, we use the movie references which symbolise the serial crimes and Black Rabbit logo with the motto Rebird in memory of the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd. Mühlviertel hare hunting (German Mühlviertler Hasenjagd) is a war crime committed by the Nazis in February 1945, during which units of the SS, Wehrmacht, Hitler Youth, with the help of the local population, pursued and brutally killed 410 Soviet prisoners of war who had fled from the Mauthausen concentration camp in the Mühlviertel region in Austria. On the night from February 1st to February 2nd, 1945, Russian war prisoners organized a mass escape from barrack No. 20 (Death Block) of the German concentration camp Mauthausen, in which about 500 people participated, mostly captured Soviet military officers. The escape was scheduled for the night of 28/29 January. However, it did not take place. On January 27th, the SS men selected and took away 25 of the most physically strong people, including several leaders of the escape, and burned them alive in a crematorium. The escape was well organized. At that moment, when one part of the prisoners threw various objects at two guard towers (barrack fire extinguishers, stones, and sticks), the second group, using wet blankets and pieces of clothing, shorted out the electric wire, which was a decisive factor for a successful escape. In total, 419 people escaped from the camp. But over 100 people died already in front of the concentration camp - some fell from exhaustion, and many were killed by machine-gun fire from the rest of the guard towers. Approximately only 300 prisoners managed to reach the surrounding forests. In the block stayed the rest 75 completely exhausted prisoners who could no longer move. Nazis shot them immediately. Most of the 300 prisoners who escaped, were discovered by the SS teams on the first day and shot on the spot. The rest were declared a "hunt" in which the SS units, the gendarmerie, the Wehrmacht, the Volkssturm, the Hitler Youth, and "civilians" participated. Within a few weeks almost everyone was shot dead or captured (57 people were caught alive). The documentary "Action K" (1994) contains eyewitness accounts who claimed that it was not quite a normal "hunt" with guns "like an animal." Many fugitives, especially those caught alive, were not shot but were beaten to death with improvised means in the cruelest way. The reason for this attitude towards them is that the Nazis wanted to save the cartridges. As documents from the Mauthausen archive testify: “The bodies were left lying where people were killed. The intestines and genitals were on display for all to see... In Lem-villa there lived a certain farmer whose wife heard a rustle in the goat shed in the evening. She brought her husband, who pulled the fugitive from his hiding place. The farmer immediately stabbed the man in the neck, and blood gushed from the wound. The farmer's wife jumped to the dying man and gave him another slap in the face before dying..." The documents of the archive contain descriptions of many atrocities of the local civil population against defenseless Russian prisoners of war. Only 11 Soviet officers are known, who, despite the great danger, were hidden by several local peasants and Ostarbeiters." They waited for the arrival of the American army, remained alive, and got rebirth. In the case of BOOST, the accidentally surviving rabbit, occasionally mixed with the hares, feels the obligation to file for everyone who dealt with his long-eared mates and relatives, rescue the Toontown, and save the world from the ugly Coyote and judge Rock.


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