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(Friday, April 27, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Landsberg, a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp located in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich, was liberated today by the 12th Armored Division of the United States Army.

As U.S. Army troops neared today, the SS officer in charge ordered that 4,000 prisoners be destroyed. Windows and doors of their huts were nailed shut. The buildings were then doused with gasoline and set afire.

Prisoners, who were naked or nearly so, were burned to death, while some managed to crawl out of the buildings before dying.

The Kaufering IV sub-camp of Dachau was also liberated today by the 12th Armored Division of the US Seventh Army with help from soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, who arrived on April 28, 1945.

Kaufering IV was one of 11 camps, all named Kaufering and numbered I through XI, which were located near Landsberg am Lech, not far from the city of Munich.

All Kaufering sub-camps were set up to specifically build three underground factories (Allied bombing raids made it necessary for them to be underground) for a project called Ringeltaube (wood pigeon), which planned to be the location in which the German jet fighter plane, Messerschmitt Me 262, was to be built.

In the last days of war, in April 1945, the Kaufering camps were evacuated and around 15,000 prisoners were sent up to the main Dachau camp. Approximately 14,500 prisoners in the eleven Kaufering camps died of hunger, cold weather, overwork, and typhus.

A dramatization of the discovery and liberation of the sub-camps was presented in Episode 9: “Why We Fight” of the Band of Brothers mini-series.

Video: 'Kaufering Concentration Camp Memorial Graveyard'