Kaufering concentration camp complex

Kaufering I–XI
concentration camps
Kaufering IV after liberation
Location	Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria
Operated by	Nazi Germany
Commandant	Heinrich Forster Hans Aumeier Otto Förschner
Companies involved	Messerschmitt AG
Operational	18 June 1944–27 April 1945
Inmates	Mostly Jews
Number of inmates	30,000
Killed	15,000
Liberated by	Seventh United States Army
Notable inmates	Elkhanan Elkes Viktor Frankl
Website	www.landsberger-zeitgeschichte.de/English/Memorial.htm

Kaufering was a system of eleven subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp which operated between 18 June 1944 and 27 April 1945 and which were located around the towns of Landsberg am Lech and Kaufering in Bavaria.

Previously, Nazi Germany had deported all Jews from the Reich, but having exhausted other sources of labor, Jews were deported to Kaufering to create three massive underground bunkers, Weingut II, Diana II, and Walnuss II, which would not be vulnerable to the Allied bombing which had devastated German aircraft factories. The bunkers were intended for the production of Messerschmitt Me 262 aircraft, but none were produced at the camps before the United States Army captured the area.

Kaufering was the largest of the Dachau subcamps and also the one with the worst conditions; about half of the 30,000 prisoners died from hunger, disease, executions, or during the death marches. Most of the sites were not preserved and have been repurposed for other uses.