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(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 5000 men lived there; in February 1945, 200 women also arrived there.
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.
Landsberg am Lech (Landsberg at the Lech) is a town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Landsberg am Lech .
Kaufering is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany. It lies on the river Lech. During World War II, a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp was located there. The old part of Kaufering, seen from north west
Nevertheless, Schilling's sentence was confirmed, and his execution took place at Landsberg Prison in Landsberg am Lech on 28 May 1946. The execution was filmed by military personnel, who recorded Schilling's ascending the gallows and his hanging, [9] along with a coffin marked "Dr Schilling, Claus." [10]
American soldiers liberating Landsberg am Lech on 30 April 1945 Record card of former SS-Hauptscharführer Georg Schallermair , who worked at the Mühldorf subcamp. After he was sentenced to death at the Dachau Trials, Schallermair was hanged at Landsberg in 1951. Convicted war criminal shortly before being hanged at Landsberg Prison.
European Holocaust Memorial (Landsberg am Lech) [46] Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site; Nordenstadt Memorial; Wollheim Memorial; Eckerwald Memorial; KZ-Transport 1945 Memorial; Angel of Peace (Mannheim) Freight Wagon Memorial; Forced Laborer Memorial Transit, Nuremberg; European Holocaust Memorial in Landsberg; Memorial Neuer Börneplatz
The district is dominated by the Lech with its numerous barrages, the Ammersee, the rural communities in the south reaching as far as the foothills of the Alps and the large district town of Landsberg am Lech situated at the junction of the Bundesautobahn 96 (Munich-Lindau) with the Bundesstraße 17 (Augsburg-Füssen-Austria). The lowest point ...