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Forced labor at Mittelbau-Dora

Prisoners of the Mittelbau-Dora camp were forced to build V-2 rockets at the Mittelwerk plant; over 20,000 died.

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Dates
1943–1945
Place
Mittelbau-Dora

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  • Wernher von Braun head of V-2 development Primary record 1

    NASA's biography: he was aware of the conditions and took part in decisions about the use of slave labor.

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  1. 1943–1945 Forced labor at Mittelbau-Dora
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  1. Wernher von Braun (biography), NASA. Primary record
    Von Braun was well aware of the terrible conditions and was involved in decision-making about the use of slave labor.
    von Braun later testified (1969) to have traveled to the Nordhausen area around 15 times between the late 1943 and February 1945.
    This V–2 assembly plant, called the Mittelwerk, was in central Germany near Nordhausen, utilized enslaved labor from the attached Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.
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