Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp

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Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp was a Nazi forced labor camp in Germany where prisoners were brutally exploited to build V-2 rockets in underground tunnels during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi concentration camp
forced labour camp
administeredBy SS-Totenkopfverbände
associatedWith German war economy
Mittelwerk GmbH
V-2 rocket program
linked to: V-2 rocket
category Holocaust locations in Germany
Nazi concentration camps in Germany
World War II forced labour camps
causeOfDeath disease
executions
exhaustion
mistreatment
starvation
country Nazi Germany
dissolved April 1945
endDate 1945-04
established August 1943
estimatedDeaths over 20,000 prisoners
hasFacility Mittelwerk underground factory
camp barracks
crematorium
punishment cells
roll-call square
underground tunnels
hasPart Mittelbau-Dora Memorial
knownFor extremely harsh working conditions
high mortality rate
underground slave labour
liberatedBy United States Army
liberationDate 1945-04-11
locatedIn Germany
Harz
Nordhausen
Thuringia
memorialEstablished 1964
notableCommander Hans Kammler
Otto Förschner
Richard Baer
operatedDuring World War II
operator SS
Schutzstaffel
linked to: Schutzstaffel (SS)
partOf Mittelbau-Dora camp complex
Nazi concentration camp system
postWarUse Soviet military site
memorial site
prisonerOrigin French prisoners
Jewish prisoners
Polish prisoners
Soviet prisoners of war
other occupied European countries
political prisoners
prisonerPopulation tens of thousands of prisoners
purpose exploitation of forced labour
production of secret weapons
startDate 1943-08
subcampOf Buchenwald concentration camp
linked to: Buchenwald
subjectOf Dora Trial at Dachau
war crimes trials
usedFor V-1 flying bomb production
V-2 rocket production
arms production
underground weapons manufacturing
workType construction work
transport of materials
tunnel excavation
weapons assembly

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V-2 rocket associatedCamp Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Buchenwald hasSubcamp Mittelbau-Dora
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Mittelwerk underground factory suppliedBy Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Mittelwerk underground factory near Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Mittelwerk underground factory partOf Mittelbau-Dora complex
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp partOf Mittelbau-Dora camp complex
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp hasPart Mittelbau-Dora Memorial
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Buchenwald Trial concernedPlace Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
U.S. 3rd Armored Division liberated Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp area
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Vergeltungswaffe 2 associatedConcentrationCamp Mittelbau-Dora
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Arthur Rudolph associatedWith Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Richard Baer servedIn Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Buchenwald subcamp system hasPart Mittelbau-Dora subcamp complex
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
V-weapons program notableSite Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Dora Trial at Dachau mainCampConcerned Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Dora Trial at Dachau alsoConcerned Mittelbau subcamps
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Mittelwerk hasPrisonLaborSource Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
subject linked to: Kohnstein mountain
Nordhausen hasNearbySite Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Nordhausen hasNearbyMemorial Mittelbau-Dora Memorial
linked to: Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp