Convicted war criminal Wladislaw Dopierla is prepared for execution on the scaffold of the prison in Landsberg.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 82971

Overview

Caption: Convicted war criminal Wladislaw Dopierla is prepared for execution on the scaffold of the prison in Landsberg.
Photographer: Pearce
Date: 1948 November 16
Locale: Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale: Landsberg Am Lech
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
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]

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007884.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008194.

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-313338

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS COLLABORATORS EXECUTIONS GALLOWS GUARDS POLES PRISONS PRISONS (LANDSBERG) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) WAR CRIMINALS/TRIALS
Photo Designation: PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Collaborators' Trials/Punishment -- Germany