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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 ...
Landsberg Prison, which is in the town's western outskirts, was completed in 1910. The facility was designed with an Art Nouveau frontage by Hugo von Höfl [ de ] . Within its walls, the four brick-built cell blocks were constructed in a cross-shape orientation.
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.
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
The division spearheaded the Seventh Army drive, securing Landsberg, on 27 April and clearing the area between the Ammer and Würm Lakes by 30 April. The 12th Armored Division is recognized as a liberating unit [26] of the Landsberg concentration camps near the Landsberg Prison, sub-camps of Dachau concentration camp on 27 April 1945.
The Dachau camp trial (German: Dachau-Hauptprozess) ... 28 were executed by hanging on 28 and 29 May 1946 at Landsberg Prison. The executions took place in camera.
Landsberg am Lech is a Landkreis in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Aichach-Friedberg , Fürstenfeldbruck , Starnberg , Weilheim-Schongau , Ostallgäu and Augsburg .