Hurlach

Hurlach

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Hurlach

Coordinates: 48°07′N 10°49′E / 48.117°N 10.817°E / 48.117; 10.817Coordinates: 48°07′N 10°49′E / 48.117°N 10.817°E / 48.117; 10.817
Country Germany
State Bavaria
Admin. region Oberbayern
District Landsberg am Lech
Municipal assoc. Igling
Government
  Mayor Wilhelm Böhm (CSU)
Area
  Total 17.15 km2 (6.62 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
  Total 1,820
  Density 110/km2 (270/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 86857
Dialling codes 08248
Vehicle registration LL
Website www.hurlach.de

Hurlach is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany.

Liberation of Hurlach "satellite" camp of Dachau

On April 29, 1945, advance scouts of the US Army's Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, a segregated Japanese-American Allied military unit in World War II, encountered a "set of barracks surrounded by barbed wire", and liberated what turned out to be the "Kaufering IV Hurlach" slave labor camp, which housed some 3,000 prisoners, which was one of some 169 "satellite" camps of the infamous Dachau concentration camp.[2]

References

  1. "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). June 2016.
  2. Axelrod, Alan (2007). Encyclopedia of World War II. H W Fowler. p. 476. ISBN 978-0-8160-6022-1.


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