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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 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.
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 ...
Dachau, a Nazi concentration camp, received its first prisoners, as four police trucks brought in 200 inmates from the Stadelheim Prison and Landsberg Prison. The camp, built around a former munitions factory, was initially intended for the "protective custody" of officials of banned political parties (i.e. Communists).