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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.
Concentration camp cemetery for the Kaufering II – Igling and XI – Stadtwaldhof/Landsberg remote camps (Landsberg/Holzhausen intersection) Concentration camp cemetery for the Kaufering III – Kaufering remote camp (barrage weir) 48°06′46″N 10°51′32″E / 48.112719°N 10.858956°E / 48.112719; 10.858956 ...
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Citizens´ Association "Landsberg in the 20th Century" - Founded 9 November 1983 - Since over 30 year active within the remembrance of the local Holocaust Concentration Camp Kaufering/Landsberg European Holocaust Memorial - a monument ensemble against racism and totalitarianism at the place of the crime - under the executive management of ...
In the final stages of World War II, the German Armaments Ministry and the SS established the Kaufering concentration camp, including 11 subcamps in the general area of Landsberg and Kaufering. It was set up as a subcamp of Dachau. At the end of April 1945, the SS evacuated or destroyed what they could before the Allies arrived. [2]
During World War II Kaufering concentration camp IV, a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp, was located about a mile south of the village Hurlach.The camp was discovered by soldiers of the 134th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion of the 12th Armored Division led by Capt. John P. Jones around noon on April 27, 1945. [3]
Anton Posset. Anton Posset (Munich, September 25, 1941 – September 10, 2015 in Halblech) was a German historian, secondary school teacher, and Holocaust researcher.. Posset was known beyond the borders of Bavaria above all as a critical local historian and, in particular, as a result of his pioneering work in connection with the Dachau subsidiary concentration camps of Landsberg/Kaufering ...