Following his failed putsch attempt and subsequent imprisonment in 1924, Adolf Hitler wrote the book “Mein Kampf” in the Bavarian town of Landsberg am Lech. During the time of the Nazi regime, the town of Landsberg am Lech became known as the “City of Youth” and as a focal place of pilgrimage in the National Socialist culture.

Under the auspices of the “Hitler Youth confession march”, delegations of the Hitler Youth (HY) marched to Landsberg from many parts of the German Reich in connection with the Nuremberg Rallies in 1937 and 1938.

The National Socialists planned to convert the prison in the “pilgrimage site of German youth” into the largest youth hostel in the German Reich. The also wanted to build a parade arena that would have been larger than the old town centre of Landsberg. The last “Adolf Hitler March” to Landsberg was called off when the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland on 1 September 1939.