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Originally posted by cashmoney
Another good place in Germany to check out during Oktoberfest is in Nordhausen and Sonderhausen. They are two villages smack dab in the middle of Germany in the state of Thuringia. The villages are about 30 minutes drive apart.
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One notorious fact about Nordhausen: it used to be the site of the
Mittelwerke where V-1 cruise missiles and V-2 rockets (V-
Vergeltungswaffen (Reprisal Weapon))were built inside an abandoned salt mine, using slave labor from the nearby Dora concentration camp. The remains of the Mittelwerke and the Dora camp are now a memorial to the Holocaust.
The former Dachau concentration camp is north of Munich. Visiting either site (or any former concentration camp) is NOT for the faint of heart, even after 60 years have passed.