War Criminals Prison No. 1
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War Criminals Prison No. 1 was the post–World War II Allied detention facility at Landsberg Prison in Germany where numerous convicted Nazi war criminals were incarcerated and executed.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kriegsverbrechergefängnis Nr. 1 | 1 |
| War Criminals Prison No. 1 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T279482 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: War Criminals Prison No. 1 Context triple: [Landsberg Prison, usedAs, War Criminals Prison No. 1]
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A.
Stalags
Stalags were German World War II prisoner-of-war camps, particularly notorious for their harsh conditions and high mortality among Soviet captives.
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B.
Prisoners from the Front
Prisoners from the Front is an 1866 Civil War painting by American artist Winslow Homer that depicts a Union officer confronting captured Confederate soldiers, noted for its psychological tension and realism.
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C.
IG Farben Trial
The IG Farben Trial was a post–World War II Nuremberg military tribunal prosecuting executives of the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben for war crimes, including the use of forced labor and involvement in the Holocaust.
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D.
Plaszow concentration camp
Plaszow concentration camp was a Nazi German forced-labor and concentration camp near Kraków, Poland, notorious for its brutal conditions and later depicted in the film "Schindler’s List."
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E.
DulagTransitCamps
Dulag transit camps were German World War II prisoner-of-war facilities used primarily by the Wehrmacht to process and detain captured soldiers, including large numbers of Soviet POWs, often under brutal and deadly conditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: War Criminals Prison No. 1 Target entity description: War Criminals Prison No. 1 was the post–World War II Allied detention facility at Landsberg Prison in Germany where numerous convicted Nazi war criminals were incarcerated and executed.
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A.
Stalags
Stalags were German World War II prisoner-of-war camps, particularly notorious for their harsh conditions and high mortality among Soviet captives.
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B.
Prisoners from the Front
Prisoners from the Front is an 1866 Civil War painting by American artist Winslow Homer that depicts a Union officer confronting captured Confederate soldiers, noted for its psychological tension and realism.
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C.
IG Farben Trial
The IG Farben Trial was a post–World War II Nuremberg military tribunal prosecuting executives of the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben for war crimes, including the use of forced labor and involvement in the Holocaust.
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D.
Plaszow concentration camp
Plaszow concentration camp was a Nazi German forced-labor and concentration camp near Kraków, Poland, notorious for its brutal conditions and later depicted in the film "Schindler’s List."
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E.
DulagTransitCamps
Dulag transit camps were German World War II prisoner-of-war facilities used primarily by the Wehrmacht to process and detain captured soldiers, including large numbers of Soviet POWs, often under brutal and deadly conditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Allied military prison
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post–World War II detention facility ⓘ |
| after | World War II ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
War Criminals Prison No. 1
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surface form:
Kriegsverbrechergefängnis Nr. 1
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| country | Germany ⓘ |
| hasExecutionMethod |
firing squad
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hanging ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
implementation of Allied war crimes sentences
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secure confinement of high‑profile Nazi offenders ⓘ |
| hasInmateStatus |
inmates awaiting execution
ⓘ
inmates serving fixed-term sentences ⓘ inmates serving life sentences ⓘ |
| hasPrisonerCategory |
Nazi war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg Trials
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Nazi war criminals convicted by Allied military tribunals ⓘ Nazi war criminals convicted by U.S. military courts at Dachau ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Allied occupation of Germany ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
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Germany ⓘ Landsberg Prison ⓘ Landsberg am Lech ⓘ |
| notablePrisoner |
Albert Speer
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Baldur von Schirach ⓘ Ernst Kaltenbrunner ⓘ Hjalmar Schacht ⓘ Ilse Koch ⓘ Joachim Peiper ⓘ Karl Brandt ⓘ Karl Dönitz ⓘ Karl Gebhardt ⓘ Oswald Pohl ⓘ Otto Ohlendorf ⓘ Walther Funk ⓘ Wolfram Sievers ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Allied occupation authorities
ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ |
| partOf |
Allied system of war crimes incarceration facilities in Germany
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American Zone of Occupied Germany ⓘ
surface form:
American occupation zone in Germany
|
| relatedToEvent |
Buchenwald Trial
ⓘ
surface form:
Dachau war crimes trials
Nuremberg trials ⓘ
surface form:
Nuremberg Military Tribunals
|
| securityLevel | high security ⓘ |
| successorFacility | regular German penal institutions after Allied control ended ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 1950s
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late 1940s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
detention of convicted Nazi war criminals
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execution of convicted Nazi war criminals ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: War Criminals Prison No. 1 Description of subject: War Criminals Prison No. 1 was the post–World War II Allied detention facility at Landsberg Prison in Germany where numerous convicted Nazi war criminals were incarcerated and executed.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kriegsverbrechergefängnis Nr. 1