On April 27, 1945, units of the United States Army liberated the Kaufering Concentration Camp Complex, a network of subcamps linked to Dachau Concentration Camp. Established in 1944, the Kaufering camps were built to provide forced labor for the construction of underground bunkers and factories intended for aircraft production, shielding Germany’s war industry from Allied bombing. Conditions in the camps were brutal. Prisoners lived in primitive, overcrowded barracks or dugouts, often entirely u

Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as this week