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JVA Landsberg am Lech

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Background

Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west-southwest of Munich and 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Augsburg. It is best known as the prison where Adolf Hitler was held in 1924 after the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich and where he dictated his memoir Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess. 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 the U.S. Forces of Occupation in Germany, renamed Landsberg War Criminal Prison No. 1.

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1908

Operational

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Facility profile

Population held

male

Opened

1908

Region

Bayern (Bavaria)

Security level

Medium

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

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Known issues

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Notable inmates

Held Adolf Hitler in 1924 (where he wrote Mein Kampf). Post-WWII used by Allied forces for war-crimes prisoners.

Contact & address

Hindenburgring 12, Landsberg am Lech 86899
+49 8191 126 0
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World Prisons. (2026). JVA Landsberg am Lech. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jva-landsberg-am-lech
Chicago
"JVA Landsberg am Lech." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jva-landsberg-am-lech.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-jva-landsberg-am-lech,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {JVA Landsberg am Lech},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jva-landsberg-am-lech},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}