Emil Maurice was a German Nazi official and a founding member of the Schutzstaffel. He was Adolf Hitler's first personal chauffeur, and one of only a few people of mixed Jewish and ethnic German ances
Maurice wearing the Blood Order medal
Early photo of Hitler's bodyguard: left to right: Julius Schaub; Julius Schreck; Adolf Hitler; Hans Georg Maurer; Gerhard Schneider
From left to right; Hitler, Maurice, Kriebel, Hess and Weber in Landsberg Prison, 1924
Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometres west-southwest of Munich and 35 kilometres south of Augsburg. It is b
Aerial view of Landsberg Prison (2022)
Record card of former SS-Hauptscharführer Georg Schallermair [de], who worked at the Mühldorf subcamp. After he was sentenced to death at the Dachau Trials, Schallermair was hanged at Landsberg in 1951.
Convicted war criminal shortly before being hanged at Landsberg Prison. Chaplain Karl Morgenschweis [de] is praying for him.