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Landsberg am Lech is the town in southwest Bavaria Bayern, where Adolf Hitler was incarcerated in 1924.
During his incarceration Adolf Hitler wrote his book, Mein Kampf, together with Rudolf Hess.

The Landsberg Konzentrationslager was a group of eleven German concentration camps, located around Landsberg and Kaufering.
On June 18, 1944, the first 1,000 prisoners from Auschwitz were transported to Kaufering, to work underground on Project Ringeltaube, in three underground bunkers where they built the Messerschmitt Me-262.
By the end of October, 1944, those prisoners who could not work anymore, were transported back to the gas chambers as Auschwitz.

On April 27, 1945, the 101st Airborne (506th PIR), the 10th Tiger Armored Division and the 4th Division of the United States Army liberated Landsberg Konzentrationslager.
About 15,000 prisoners survived in the camps at Landsberg Konzentrationslager.
On orders from General Maxwell D. Taylor, the news media were allowed to record the atrocities, and local German civilians and guards were ordered to bury the dead, digging the graves with their bare hands.

After the liberation of Landsberg, it became a DP Camp, primarily for Jewish refugees from the Russia and the Baltic states, and one of the most influential DP camps in the Sherit haPlitah שארית הפליטה.