KZ-Mittelbau-Dora

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Mittelbau-Dora, sometimes called Mittelbau concentration camp, was a Nazi concentration camp that was opened in August 1943 near Nordhausen, south of the Harz mountains. Initially, Lager Dora was an ex-camp of Buchenwald, but in the summer of 1944 Mittelbau-Dora became an independent concentration camp with approximately forty ex-camps. The purpose of the camp was to support the German war industry by using prisoners as labour in the production of V1s and V2s.

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