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Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west-southwest of Munich and 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Augsburg.
Kaufering I – Landsberg. SS headquarter camp complex Kaufering I–XI (before late September, designated Kaufering III) was opened on 22 June 1944 and served as the headquarters of the Kaufering command from September. Located near Landsberg am Lech, the main purpose of this camp was the construction of bunker Weingut II. Between 2000 and ...
The Landsberg camp began in June 1944 as a Nazi concentration camp. By October 1944, there were more than 5,000 prisoners alive in the camp. Most of the remaining inmates who were able to walk were "evacuated" by the Germans in death marches in April 1945. The camp was liberated on 27 April 1945 by the 12th Armored Division of the United States ...
Earth barracks Kaufering IV (Hurlach). Photograph taken on 28 April 1945 after the liberation by the US Army. The European Holocaust Memorial in Landsberg am Lech is on the site of former subcamp number seven Erpfting (Landsberg), one of eleven former subcamps of Kaufering concentration camp complex, the largest remote area of the concentration camp Dachau.
Karl Franz Gebhardt (23 November 1897 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi physician and a war criminal.Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.
The Dora defendants, Hans Möser 3rd from the right. Möser was arrested at the end of the war. Following the June 1945 Fedden Mission investigation of the Dora conditions, Möser was among 19 defendants tried by the American General Military Government Court in the Dora Trial (The United States of America versus Arthur Kurt Andrae et al., Case Number 000-50-37), part of the Dachau Trials.
After Auschwitz-Birkenau was abandoned by the SS on 18 January 1945, Moll was transferred to a sub-camp of Dachau concentration camp. On 28 April 1945, a day before Dachau was liberated by American troops, Moll arrived at the main camp with a group of prisoners whom he had forced on a death march. He'd proposed bombing Dachau and killing the ...
He was found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death, and hanged at Landsberg Prison on May 28, 1946. [1] [2] In February 1946, the U.S. military court in Dachau indicted fourteen Nazi officials of the Mühldorf camp for crimes committed against the unarmed prisoners, including killings, beatings, torture, starvation and abuse. On May 13, 1947 ...