Landsberg Prison

Landsberg Prison

Landsberg Prison is a penal facility located in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 30 miles (65 km) west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg.

History

The prison was originally constructed around 1910 at the town's western outskirt. Its most noted inmate was Adolf Hitler, who was incarcerated there in 1924 after his conviction on a charge of treason. It was during his imprisonment at Landsberg that Hitler dictated and then wrote his book "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle") with assistance from his deputy, Rudolf Hess. During the occupation of Germany by the Allies after World War II, the US Army designated the prison as "War Criminal Prison No. 1" [ [http://www.buergervereinigung-landsberg.org/english/warcriminals/warcriminals.shtml The Landsberg Prison for War Criminals] .] and held many convicted Nazi war criminals there. A number of German war criminals were executed at Landsberg by hanging. The last of these executions took place on June 8, 1951 and were the last executions conducted within the Federal Republic of Germany, then commonly known as West Germany.

The facility is now maintained by the Prison Service of the Bavarian Ministry of Justice.

ee also

* Beer Hall Putsch
* Karl Brandt
* Doctors' Trial

References

External links

* [http://www.buergervereinigung-landsberg.org/english/stadt/jugend.shtml Landsberg "The Hitlertown": The City of Youth]


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