![]() Hundreds of inmates were too ill or weak to make the trek, so the SS guards set fire to the barracks to prevent their liberation by US troops. At its height, the camp held more than 3,600 prisoners, but in the days before US troops arrived, the SS had evacuated many of the prisoners on a death march south in the direction of Dachau. The Kaufering complex was under the administration of the Dachau concentration camp. The 101st Airborne Division and the Liberation of KauferingÄuring the 101st's drive into southern Germany, the unit uncovered Kaufering IV, one of 11 camps in the Kaufering complex in the Landsberg region. By war's end, the division had reached the Bavarian Alps. In January 1945, the 101st moved into Alsace in April, its troops advanced into the Rhineland. The unit refused to surrender and held out until the 4th Armored Division arrived to provide it with badly needed support. The 101st was deployed to Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 and was subsequently surrounded in Bastogne by German troops. ![]() In September 1944, the unit was dropped into the Netherlands, where it captured the city of Eindhoven. There, the "Screaming Eagles" division engaged in fierce fighting with German forces. ![]() 101st Airborne Division Campaigns during World War IIÄ®stablished in 1942, the 101st Airborne Division parachuted into Normandy, France, near Utah Beach on D-Day (June 6, 1944).
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