'Empty body' art in tunnels dug by Austria concentration camp inmates

Ebensee, Austria: An exhibition of empty dresses and blood red ropes hanging inside an underground tunnel dug by concentration camp inmates in Austria...

Ebensee, Austria: An exhibition of empty dresses and blood red ropes hanging inside an underground tunnel dug by concentration camp inmates in Austria during World War II seeks to bring the public closer to the "unspeakable" in memory of the victims of Nazism, its creators say.

"We can bring what happened here closer to people... It is possible to perhaps make the unspeakable more tangible for people," Wolfgang Quatember, manager of the Ebensee camp memorial and museum, told AFP.

The Ebensee concentration camp was erected as a labour camp in the picturesque mountainous region around Salzburg in Austria, the country where Adolf Hitler was born and which he annexed in 1938.

More than 27,000 men from 20 different nationalities, a third of them Jewish, were imprisoned at Ebensee between 1943 and 1945.

The inmates were forced to dig underground tunnels to be used to research and develop missiles -- plans which were never carried out.