American troops liberated the concentration camp at Landsberg, near Munich, on April 27, 1945. The U.S. military ordered the townspeople, Germans, to help dispose of the bodies of prisoners from the Landsberg concentration camp.
The Ransburg concentration camp was part of the Kaufering concentration camp complex (Kaufering VII), which was a branch camp of the oldest Dachau concentration camp. It was under the command of the Dachau concentration camp of the German Reich. The Randsburg concentration camp has been preserved as the "European Holocaust Memorial. Under the orders of just 11 Nazi German SS officers in the Kaufeling concentration camp complex, some 14,500 Jewish prisoners were murdered over a period of about 10 months before they were liberated by American forces on April 27, 1945.
On June 20, 1944, the Kaufeling concentration camp complex was built in the Landsberg am Lech area, consisting of 11 outposts of the Dachau concentration camp. Eleven concentration camps, numbered I-XI, were built in the Kaufeling concentration camp complex to produce bombers. Three semi-subterranean bomb-proof bunkers (facilities for defending against attacks) were built for the production of German fighter planes under the supervision of the Organisation Todt (Nazi Germany's military and civilian construction contractor), mainly using the labor of Jewish forced laborers.
About 23,000 concentration camp prisoners were deported to the Kaufeling concentration camp complex within about 10 months of their liberation on June 18, 1944, to April 27, 1945. Approximately 6,500 identified prisoners died in the concentration camps. Their bodies were buried in mass graves near Kaufeling and Landsberg. This number of victims does not include concentration camp prisoners who were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau or other concentration camps and subsequently murdered, nor does it include victims of the death marches. With the exception of a few corpses, almost all traces of the concentration camp complex Kaufeling have disappeared. Only the Landsberg concentration camp (Kaufeling VII), which was part of the former Kaufeling concentration camp complex, has preserved some buildings and above-ground monuments.
