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Landsberg Prison
.jpg) Aerial view of Landsberg Prison (2022) | |
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| Location | Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany |
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| Coordinates | 48°03′15″N 10°52′00″E / 48.05417°N 10.86667°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Capacity | 800 |
| Population | ~724 average |
| Opened | 1910 |
| Former name | War Criminal Prison Nr. 1 |
| Managed by | Bavarian Ministry of Justice |
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. It is best known as the prison where Adolf Hitler was held in 1924, after the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, and where he dictated his memoirs Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess.
The prison was used by the Allied powers during the Occupation of Germany for holding Nazi War Criminals. In 1946, General Joseph T. McNarney, commander in chief of U.S. Forces of Occupation in Germany, renamed Landsberg War Criminal Prison No. 1.
The Americans closed the war crimes facility in 1958. Full control of the prison was then handed over to the Federal Republic of Germany. Landsberg is now maintained by the Prison Service of the Bavarian Ministry of Justice.
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