Landsberg Prison
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Landsberg Prison is a prison located in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria. It is about 30 miles (45 km) west of Munich.
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It was first built around 1910 at the town's western edge. Its most noted prisoner was Adolf Hitler. Hitler was there in 1924 after it was determined he was guilty of treason. It was during his time at Landsberg that Hitler wrote his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) with help from Rudolf Hess. During the occupation of Germany by the Allies after World War II, the US Army named the prison as "War Criminal Prison No. 1" [1]. They held many Nazi war criminals there. Executions of war criminals were also done at Landsberg. The last of these executions happened on June 8, 1951. there were the last executions in the Federal Republic of Germany, then commonly known as West Germany.
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