Nordhausen, Thuringia
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Nordhausen is a city in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Nordhausen district and the urban centre of northern Thuringia and the southern Harz region; its population is 42,000. Nordhausen i
View of Nordhausen (city centre)
Nordhausen in the 17th century
Underground factory of KZ Mittelbau-Dora
Boelcke Kaserne was destroyed, resulting in 1300 deaths of prisoners after the April 1945 bombings by the Royal Air Force
Mittelbau-Dora was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour
Nordhausen, Thuringia
…this became a centre of the engineering and arms industries. During World War II, the Nazi German government established and operated the nearby KZ Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, where 60,000 forced labourers had to work in the arms industry. They were prisoners of war and persons from occupied territories…
Supervised by American soldiers, German civilians from Nordhausen bury the corpses of prisoners found at Mittelbau-Dora in April 1945.
Otto Förschner, camp commandant (after 11 April 1945)
Richard Baer, camp commandant
Emaciated survivors of Nordhausen after liberation of the camp, 12 April 1945