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    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 (40 mi) west-southwest...
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    Landsberg am Lech (Landsberg at the Lech) is a town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg...
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    account of Hess and Spandau Prison. Land of the Blind Cold War Landsberg Prison in Bavaria Spandau Citadel Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan Speer und Er...
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    June 1944 and 27 April 1945 and which were located around the towns of Landsberg am Lech and Kaufering in Bavaria. Previously, Nazi Germany had deported...
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    Possible monorchism of Adolf Hitler (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    disputed. In December 2015, it was reported that doctor's notes from Landsberg Prison recorded that Hitler had "right-sided cryptorchidism", on evidence...
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    October 2019 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, and continued in nearby Landsberg. After unsuccessfully trying to enter the synagogue in Halle during the...
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  • women's prison Landsberg Prison Spandau Prison, Berlin (demolished; had only one prisoner during its final 11 years) Stammheim Prison Werl Prison, Werl...
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    Karl Gebhardt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    sentenced to death on 20 August 1947. He was hanged on 2 June 1948, in Landsberg Prison in Bavaria. In his student days Gebhardt had been a supporter of the...
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    Uli Hoeneß (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    his sentence at Landsberg Prison. Hoeneß submitted a request to be confined to a different prison, however, he reported to Landsberg on 2 June 2014. During...
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    Kampfhäusl (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    The Hitler trial resulted in a minimum sentence of five years in Landsberg Prison, where he dictated the first volume of Mein Kampf to his later deputy...
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    recounted the story many times over the years. While at Landsberg, he created his first band, "The Landsberg Barbarians". On July 3, 1954, he was honorably discharged...
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    Beer Hall Putsch (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Hitler was found guilty of treason and sentenced to five years in Landsberg Prison, where he dictated Mein Kampf to fellow prisoners Emil Maurice and...
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  • Johann Reichhart (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    assisted the U.S. military with the executions of Nazi war criminals at Landsberg Prison. In May 1947, Reichhart was imprisoned for a second time. After a denazification...
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  • Hans Steinbrenner (SS member) (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    in prison. A codefendant, Johann Unterhuber, was sentenced to six years in prison on lesser charges. Steinbrenner served his sentence at Landsberg Prison...
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    Emil Maurice (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Rudolf Hess, Maurice and other Nazi leaders were incarcerated at Landsberg Prison for high treason. The Nazi Party and all associated formations, including...
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    Oswald Pohl (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Church. Pohl was hanged shortly after midnight on 7 June 1951 at Landsberg Prison in Landsberg am Lech. Pohl's last words were "I have spent more than 30 years...
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    Wolfram Sievers (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    20 August 1947 in the Doctors' trial, and hanged on 2 June 1948, at Landsberg Prison in Bavaria. Russian far-right political philosopher Alexandr Dugin...
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    case." Brandt and six other defendants were executed by hanging at Landsberg Prison on 2 June 1948. While on the gallows, he remarked: "It is no shame...
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    ISBN 978-0385536714. Landsberg, Mitchell (June 15, 2002). "New life, old murder: Ex-radical Emily Harris faces charges 19 years after release from prison". The Seattle...
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    "violating the laws and usages of war," Weiss was executed by hanging at Landsberg prison on 29 May 1946. Just before the black hood was placed over his head...
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    Schilling's sentence was confirmed, and his execution took place at Landsberg Prison in Landsberg am Lech on 28 May 1946. The execution was filmed by military...
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    Ruppert was convicted of war crimes, sentenced to death, and hanged at Landsberg Prison on May 28, 1946. Holger Lessing: Der erste Dachauer Prozess (1945/46)...
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    Viktor Brack (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    1947, Brack was sentenced to death. He was executed by hanging at Landsberg Prison on 2 June 1948, stating at the gallows that he "wished for God to give...
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    Sepp Dietrich (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of war crimes at the Malmedy massacre trial. Upon his release from Landsberg Prison in 1955, Dietrich became active in HIAG, a lobby group established...
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    Dachau concentration camp (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    with the arrival of about 200 prisoners from Stadelheim Prison in Munich and the Landsberg fortress (where Hitler had written Mein Kampf during his imprisonment)...
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    Rudolf Hess (category German people who died in prison custody)
    Nazi Party and SA were both outlawed. Both men were incarcerated in Landsberg Prison, where Hitler soon began work on his memoir, Mein Kampf ("My Struggle")...
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  • Otto Moll (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    sent an urgent request for an interview to the American prison commandant of Landsberg Prison, where Moll was awaiting execution. He requested an interview...
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    prison, which was reduced to 15 years on 21 January 1951 by US High Commissioner John J. McCloy. On 7 April 1954, Hofmann was released from Landsberg...
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    were unsuccessful. He and his condemned codefendants were executed at Landsberg Prison on 5 November 1948. In his final statement, Hildebrandt blamed Communists...
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    Lothar Rendulic (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    and on 1 February 1951 Rendulic was released from the military prison in Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria. After his release, he worked as an author and...
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