Landsberg Prison is a penal facility located at the town of Landsberg am Lech in the SW of the German state of Bavaria, about 30 mi (45 km) W of Munich. It was originally constructed in 1910 within the walls of the town's medieval fortress. 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 much of his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) to 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" [1] and held many convicted Nazi war criminals there. A number of executions of war criminals were also conducted at Landsberg. The last of these executions occurred 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.

See also

• Beer Hall Putsch
• Karl Brandt
• Doctors' Trial

External link

• Landsberg "The Hitlertown": The City of Youth