7th August 1944
Landsberg Prison
Postcard (first issued in June 1924?) commemorating Hitler's imprisonment at Landsberg Prison. His portrait and a 11th May 1924 statement is printed above an image of the prison. The card is sent from Landsberg to an address in Offenburg? (Adolf-Hitler-Str.) Published by A. Samweber (J. Kistler) Landsberg am Lech. With two holes punched to the upper edge. Ref: 07.08.1944, BV110
Landsberg Prison
Landsberg Prison is a penal facility in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometres (40Â mi) west-southwest of Munich and 35 kilometres (22Â mi) south of Augsburg.
In 1924 Adolf Hitler spent 264 days incarcerated in Landsberg after being convicted of treason following the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich the previous year. During his imprisonment, Hitler dictated and then wrote his book Mein Kampf with assistance from his deputy, Rudolf Hess.
Numerous foreign political prisoners of the Nazis were deported to Germany and imprisoned in Landsberg. Between early 1944 and the end of the war, at least 210 prisoners died in Landsberg as a result of mistreatment or execution.
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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