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The '''Nordhausen Concentration Camp''', so-called after its location on the outskirts of [[Nordhausen]], [[Germany]], was one of several Nazi death camps. In its official function, it was a specialized slave labor camp. Originally a [[Nazi concentration camps|subcamp]] of [[Buchenwald Concentration Camp]], Nordhausen became a full camp in 1944, with large underground facilities where slave labor worked on [[V-2]] missiles and other war production.<ref name=Dora-Mit/> The brutal conditions of the camp are documented in the Warfare History Network's article called "The Liberation of the Nordhausen Concentration Camp".<ref name=WHN /> | The '''Nordhausen Concentration Camp''', so-called after its location on the outskirts of [[Nordhausen]], [[Germany]], was one of several Nazi death camps. In its official function, it was a specialized slave labor camp. Originally a [[Nazi concentration camps|subcamp]] of [[Buchenwald Concentration Camp]], Nordhausen became a full camp in 1944, with large underground facilities where slave labor worked on [[V-2]] missiles and other war production.<ref name=Dora-Mit/> The brutal conditions of the camp are documented in the Warfare History Network's article called "The Liberation of the Nordhausen Concentration Camp".<ref name=WHN /> | ||
== | == Wikipedia decision to rename the camp == | ||
The locations of Nazi death camps were originally used to refer to the camps, at least in the [[United States of America|U.S.]]. The U.S. government-run National Archives at College Park, Maryland, holds records referring to several World War II Nazi concentration camps by location, including Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenberg, Nordhausen, and Mauthausen.<ref name=NatArch /> | The locations of Nazi death camps were originally used to refer to the camps, at least in the [[United States of America|U.S.]]. The U.S. government-run National Archives at College Park, Maryland, holds records referring to several World War II Nazi concentration camps by location, including Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenberg, Nordhausen, and Mauthausen.<ref name=NatArch /> | ||
Revision as of 08:06, 10 May 2023
The Nordhausen Concentration Camp, so-called after its location on the outskirts of Nordhausen, Germany, was one of several Nazi death camps. In its official function, it was a specialized slave labor camp. Originally a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Nordhausen became a full camp in 1944, with large underground facilities where slave labor worked on V-2 missiles and other war production.[1] The brutal conditions of the camp are documented in the Warfare History Network's article called "The Liberation of the Nordhausen Concentration Camp".[2]
Wikipedia decision to rename the camp
The locations of Nazi death camps were originally used to refer to the camps, at least in the U.S.. The U.S. government-run National Archives at College Park, Maryland, holds records referring to several World War II Nazi concentration camps by location, including Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenberg, Nordhausen, and Mauthausen.[3]
In 2023, Wikipedia calls the Nordhausen Concentration Camp Dora-Mittelbau instead, and the camp and its horrors are documented in an article separate from the town where they occurred.[4] This naming choice in Wikipedia made it easier for the modern city of Nordhausen, Germany to disassociate itself from the horrors that were perpetrated in the camp, since searching on "Nordhausen" no longer brings up the article about the camp. The Wikipedia Nordhausen article includes a single paragraph about the camp, which reads:[5]
In the 1930s the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. It imposed discrimination against Jews, with increasing restrictions and violence such as Kristallnacht in 1938, when businesses and synagogues were destroyed. It deported Jews to concentration and death camps. The Mittelbau-Dora Nazi concentration camp, established in 1943 after the destruction of Peenemünde, was located on the outskirts of Nordhausen during World War II to provide labor for the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket factory in the Kohnstein. Over its period of operation, around 60,000 inmates passed through Dora and its system of subcamps, of whom around 20,000 died from bad working conditions, starvation, and diseases, or were murdered. Around 10,000 forced labourers were deployed in several factories within the city; up to 6,000 of them were interned at Boelcke Kaserne, working for a Junkers factory.
References
- ↑ Dora - Mittelbau/Nordhausen Concentration Camp, Holocaust Research Project
- ↑ The Liberation of the Nordhausen Concentration Camp on the Warfare History Network website.
- ↑ Holocaust Records: Records Relating to Concentration Camps at the National Archives website run by the U.S. Government.
- ↑ Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp article in Wikipedia accessed on May 20, 2023.
- ↑ Nordhausen, Thuringia article in Wikipedia accessed on May 10, 2023.