Adolf Hitler pays a visit to the Landsberg prison ten years after his release.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 11770

Photographer: Heinrich Hoffmann/Studio of H. Hoffmann
Date: June 1934
Locale: Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale: Landsberg Am Lech
Photo Designation: INTERWAR EUROPE -- Germany (before 1-30-33) -- Hitler -- Prison (Landsberg)
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Richard Freimark

Event History: Landsberg Prison continued to function as a penal facility after Adolf Hitler's incarceration there in 1924 until Hitler's rise to power. During the first six years of the Nazi regime (1933-1939) the structure served as a memorial to Hitler's incarceration. More than 4,000 visitors came to the prison, which also served to host ceremonies of the Hitler Youth. Between 1945 and 1957, the facility became a prison again, this time for Nazi offenders convicted in the subsequent Nuremberg trials of the International Military Tribunal. Ohlendorf and Pohl were executed there, and the last convicts were released in 1957. Today, the facility remains a prison under the administration of the Corrections Department of the Bavarian Ministry of Justice.

[brief by the Senior Historian's Office, USHMM]

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Keyword: ARCHWAYS
AUTOMOBILES
CIGARETTE CARD
HEADS OF STATE
HITLER, ADOLF
NAZI OFFICIALS
OFFICIAL VISITS
PRISONS
PRISONS (LANDSBERG)
PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Dr. Nancy and Richard Freimark
Published Source: Adolf Hitler: Bilder aus dem leben des fuehrers - Cigaretten/Bilderdienst Altona/Bahrenfeld - p. 124
: Record last modified: 2004-07-30 00:00:00
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