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Landsberg’s contemporary history is much more than just the history of a German town1. In a fateful way, Landsberg is the focal point for decisive chapters of 20th-century history, including stages of the rise and fall of the Third Reich2 and the historical reappraisal of everything the Nazi regime left…

The European Holocaust Memorial Foundation was founded on 21 April 2009 with the aim to combine sources, archival material and objects from a wide variety of collections, and make them available for science, research and youth work. It covers the following topics: The main task of the European Holocaust Memorial…

In June 1944, the concentration camp complex Kaufering was built in the area of Landsberg am Lech, consisting of eleven outposts of the Dachau concentration camp. Exploiting the labour force of predominantly Jewish forced laborers, and under the supervision of the Todt Organisation (cover name Ringeltaube), three semi-subterranean bomb-proof bunkers…

The conception: One stone from each country The idea had been born in 1993 already. Back then, the citizens association Landsberg im 20. Jahrhundert (until 2009 previous owner of the European Holocaust Memorial on the former concentration camp Kaufering VII) wrote to fifteenEuropean heads of state. By doing so, in…

On June 20, 1944, the first shipment of 1,000 Jewish concentration camp prisoners from Auschwitz arrived at Kaufering. They were scheduled to help build three gigantic subterraneous bunkers of a project that was named „Ringeltaube“. In these three bunkers, inter alia the jet-propelled Messerschmitt airplane „Me 262“ was to be…

After the construction of the concentration camp Kaufering VII by the organization Todt (OT) it was taken over by the SS in September 1944 and the first prisoners arrived in the Kaufering VII camp. ln 55 earth huts and six clay tube buildings, up to 2,000 men and 272 women…