Kohnstein
The Kohnstein is a hill in Thuringia, Germany, 2 kilometres southwest of the village of Niedersachswerfen and 3 kilometres northwest of the centre of the town of Nordhausen.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Mittelwerk.
Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial
Museum
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 from many Eastern countries occupied by Germany, for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb.
Mittelwerk
Bunker
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Mittelwerk was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs, and other weapons.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hörningen and Woffleben.
Kohnstein
- Type: Area
- Description: mountain in the Harz, Germany
- Category: mountain
- Location: Thuringia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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