Dora-Mittelbau Concentration Camp

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Originally a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, the Dora-Mittelbau Concentration Camp, originally called Nordhausen Concentration Camp after its location five miles from the town center of Nordhausen, Germany, was a specialized slave labor camp. It became a full camp in 1944, with large underground facilities where slave labor worked on V-2 missiles and other war production.[1]

References

  1. Dora - Mittelbau/Nordhausen Concentration Camp, Holocaust Research Project