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    The Kohnstein is a hill in Thuringia, Germany, 2 kilometres southwest of the village of Niedersachswerfen and 3 kilometres northwest of the centre of...
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    eastern extermination camps), for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb. In the summer...
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    "Central Works") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration...
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    large densely wooded hill that locals called the Kohnstein. Germans had been digging into the Kohnstein’s limestone for gypsum since 1917, but in the 1930s...
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    Nordhausen 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...
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  • Mittelwerk GmbH, 1943 Near Niedersachswerfen, on the southern slope of the Kohnstein Forced labour at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. NS Reizigers B...
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    prisoners from the small F-1 concentration camp boarded rail cars bound for Kohnstein mountain. Two Polish janitors: 52  of Peenemünde's Camp Trassenheide in...
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    Germans eventually moved production to the underground Mittelwerk in the Kohnstein where 5,200 V-2 rockets were built with the use of forced labour. After...
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    range. BASF also acquired and began mining anhydrite for gypsum at the Kohnstein in 1917. In 1916, BASF started operations at a new site in Leuna, where...
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    equipment for 100 V-2 missiles from a Mittelwerk underground factory in Kohnstein within the Soviet zone. Major James P. Hamill co-ordinated the transport...
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    excavation and nearby underground stations of the Mittelwerk Ltd., in Kohnstein, situated near Nordhausen, where the V-2 rocket and the flying bomb V-1...
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  • Forschungsgesellschaft (Wifo, Economic Research Ltd) investigated the Kohnstein mine to centralize a fuel and chemical depot. Strange, Anthony N (2003)...
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  • massive armaments facility housed in an elaborate tunnel system in the Kohnstein. Here again, slave-labor was utilized to assemble the rockets. The tunnels...
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    "Hell of Dora", was marked by exhausting work in digging tunnels into the Kohnstein Mountain to create a subterranean V-weapons (German: Vergeltungswaffen)...
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    in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland Kleiner Mittelberg (346.2 m), near Ellrich Kohnstein (334.9 m), near Nordhausen Reesberg (325.2 m), near Urbach, in Alter Stolberg...
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    Mägdesprung, Meisdorf, Pansfelde HZ S-A Site of Old Falkenstein Castle Kohnstein 334.9 South Harz; South Harz NRP Herreden, Hörningen, Krimderode, Niedersachswerfen...
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