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Landsberg Prison is a penal facility located in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west of Munich and 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Augsburg. The prison was used by Allied power during the Occupation of Germany for holding Nazi War Criminals. In 1946 General Joseph T. McNarney commander in chief U.S. Forces of Occupation in Germany renamed Landsberg: War Criminal Prison Nr. 1.
