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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
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.
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Obersdorf, Nordhausen and Sonderhausen are the 3 cities in Germany where my relatives came from/still live today. The rest are from Sweden.