Talk:Landsberg am Lech

DP Camp
The Landsberg DP Camp was in the former Wehrmacht Saarburgkaserne. After its time as a DP camp, the base was used by a German Air Force missile unit; in the post Cold War era, it became a civilian housing area. The Landsberg concentration camps were in a different area. Also known as the Kauferring camps, they were 12 labor camps established to provide slave labor for the construction and operation of an underground aircraft factory built for Messerschmitt near the end of the war. Administratively, they were sub-camps of Dachau. As many as 30,000 prisoners were held there, and nearly half died, including many burned in their huts by Nazi guards who set fires to hide evidence before fleeing the advancing Allied forces (www.kauferring.com)

The Yiddish newspaper, published in the Landsberg camp, was the Landsberger Zeitung, not the Yiddische Zeitung. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.2.181.24 (talk) 03:16, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Please add that after the war also Ernst von Weizsäcker, deputy of the german secretary of state J. von Ribbentrop and father of the later german president R. von Weizsäcker was an inmate. He was condemned to five years in the Wilhelmstrassen-process against former members of the german foreign ministry (in Berlin Wilhelmsstraße). His memoirs give a description of what happened during the early 50th in there. After one year he was released. The discussion on his guilt still is going on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.133.155.70 (talk) 13:40, 29 July 2012 (UTC)