Kaufering VII Camp Liberation Memorial - 103rd “Cactus” Infantry Division
Details:
In front of the flagpoles. Monument
A stone marker with a aluminum inscribed plaque attached on the front.
As the 103d Infantry “Cactus” Division advanced into Bavaria, elements of the 411th Infantry Regiment discovered a Nazi concentration camp just outside of the city limits of modern-day Landsberg—one of the eleven sub-camps known as the Kaufering concentration camp complex. The camps were located near the towns of Kaufering and Landsberg. For their part in liberating these camps, the 103d Infantry Division (Cactus) was accorded “liberator” status in 1985 by a joint program of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the U.S. Army Center of Military History, which was an effort on the part of these two entities to recognize U.S. Army units that took part in freeing prisoners from Nazi concentration camps.
A memorial in Landsberg honors the men of the 103d Division for liberating the Nazi camp.
Source: 103rd Infantry Division Association
Monument Text:
The text on the plaque is written in French and English. The English reads:
