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The '''Nordhausen Concentration Camp''', so-called after its location on the outskirts of the German city of [[Nordhausen]], was one of several Nazi concentration camps that became death camps. It operated from summer of 1944 until the [[United States of America|U.S.]] troops | The '''Nordhausen Concentration Camp''', so-called after its location on the outskirts of the German city of [[Nordhausen]], was one of several Nazi concentration camps that became death camps. It operated from summer of 1944 until the [[United States of America|U.S.]] troops<ref name=Liberators> reached Nordhausen on April 11, 1945. Technically, the camp was a specialized slave labor camp, but in actuality, conditions were so harsh that it is reasonable to designate it as a death camp because a third of its inmates (about 20,000 people) died in the course of a single year, and most survivors were in extremely bad shape by the time of its liberation. The labor force was forced to dig under the Kohnstein, a large mountain at Nordhausen, to create large underground facility where [[V-2]] missiles and other weapons were produced safe from aerial bombing by Allied forces.<ref name=Dora-Mit/> The brutal conditions of the camp at the time of its relief are documented in the Warfare History Network's article called "The Liberation of the Nordhausen Concentration Camp".<ref name=WHN /> | ||
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The Nordhausen Concentration Camp, so-called after its location on the outskirts of the German city of Nordhausen, was one of several Nazi concentration camps that became death camps. It operated from summer of 1944 until the U.S. troopsCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
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- ↑ Dora - Mittelbau/Nordhausen Concentration Camp, Holocaust Research Project
- ↑ The Liberation of the Nordhausen Concentration Camp on the Warfare History Network website.
- ↑ Holocaust Records: Records Relating to Concentration Camps at the National Archives website run by the U.S. Government.
- ↑ Nordhausen, Thuringia article in Wikipedia accessed on May 10, 2023.
- ↑ Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp article in Wikipedia accessed on May 20, 2023.