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#OTD, 1943, marks the 78th anniversary of the arrival of the first transport of prisoners to #MittelbauDora from #Buchenwald. The bad living conditions in the tunnels will cause the death of many.
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Between 1943 & 1945, some 60,000 persons from nearly all the countries of Europe, above all the Soviet Union, Poland & France were deported to the Harz Mountains as concentration camp inmates to perform forced labour for the German armament industry. One in three of them died.
“Dora” was founded in the summer of 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp when the rocket production activities carried out at Peenemünde were relocated to tunnel facilities near Nordhausen to protect them from air attacks. Other armament projects soon followed:
