Background
Irmingard was born at her father"s residence, Schloss Berchtesgaden. She spent her childhood between Berchtesgaden and her father"s other residences, the Leuchtenberg Palais in Munich, Schloss Leutstetten, and Schloss Hohenschwangau.
Irmingard was born at her father"s residence, Schloss Berchtesgaden. She spent her childhood between Berchtesgaden and her father"s other residences, the Leuchtenberg Palais in Munich, Schloss Leutstetten, and Schloss Hohenschwangau.
She was a half-sister of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria. She spent the rest of the war mostly in Rome, Florence, and Padua. In September 1944 Irmingard was arrested by the Nazis who had been unsuccessful in trying to find and arrest her father.
She fell ill from typhus and was sent to a prison hospital in Innsbruck.
Later they were transferred to the concentration camps at Flossenbürg and Dachau, before being freed by the Third American Army, April 30, 1945.
When she recovered, she was sent to the concentration camp at Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen, where she was reunited with other members of her family who had also been arrested.
