Dora concentration camp

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Dora (also Mittelbau or Nordhausen) was a Nazi concentration camp established on August 28, 1943, near Nordhausen to provide labor for the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket production in the Kohnstein. The Mittelbau-Dora camps eventually comprised more than 40 camps. During its 18 months of activity, approximately 60,000 prisoners from 21 nations (mostly Russians, Poles, and French) passed through Dora; an estimated 20,000 of those died in this prison and includes deaths from air raids throughout the war and the evacuation "death marches" in 1945 (12,000 were officially listed as dead by the Nazis).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelbau-Dora
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Coordinates:   51°31'57"N   10°45'10"E
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