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  Nordhausen: A "Sick" Camp, or " Krankenlager " for the Dying from Mittelbau Dora and the region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Nordhausen: A "Sick" Camp, or " Krankenlager " for the Dying from Mittelbau Dora and the region
Nordhausen, located outside of Nordhausen, was the subcamp of Mittelbau-Dora where those held in slavery underground were sent when they became too weak,ill or injured to continue the back-breaking armaments work.
Nordhausen, however was a distinct location, used for a distinct purpose, although it was the purpose of the main camp, Mittelbau, to dispose of the dying and ill. The US 33rd division liberated Nordhausen with M-D in April of 1945, film of the liberation/evacuation may be found at the USHMM site.
www.shoaheducation.com /camps/nordhausen.html   (281 words)

  
  Nordhausen (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nordhausen is a Kreis (district) in the north of Thuringia, Germany.
The checkered red-silver part of the coat of arms is derived from the coat of arms of the County Hohenstein, the historical territory the district belonged to.
The tree trunk symbolizes the destruction of the city Nordhausen during World War II, with the new branch growing into the golden area symbolizing the reconstruction of the city and the bright future.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nordhausen_(district)   (305 words)

  
 Nordhausen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the capital of the district of Nordhausen.
In 1866 the railway connected Nordhausen to Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.
On 3rd and 4th April 1945 three-quarters of the town was destroyed by bombing raids of the Royal Air Force, in which around 8,800 people died.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nordhausen   (416 words)

  
 NORDHAUSEN - LoveToKnow Article on NORDHAUSEN
The breweries are also important and there are manufactures of leather, tobacco and cigars, cotton, linen goods, carpets, chicory, malt and chemicals.
Nordhausen is sometimes called the Cincinnati of Germany on account of its extensive export trade in pork, corned beef, ham and sausages.
Nordhausen is one of the oldest towns in North Germany.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NO/NORDHAUSEN.htm   (385 words)

  
 Petersbergschool Nordhausen - The history
The stone aged - and bronze aged settlements were found on the territory Nordhausen in modern times.
Nordhausen became a free imperial city and was a important centre of the German kingdom.
Nordhausen is a centre of economy - and traffic.
www.th.schule.de /ndh/peter/stadt_gee.htm   (250 words)

  
 NORDHAUSEN - Encyclopedia Britannica - NORDHAUSEN - JCSM's Study Center
NORDHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the province of Prussian Saxony.
It is situated on the Zorge at the south base of the Harz Mountains, and at the west end of the Goldene Aue (Golden Plain), a fruitful valley watered by the Helme, 6o m.
, 1895) ; Heine, Nordhausen and Preussen (Nordhausen, 1902); and Girschner, Lokalfilhrer fur Nordhausen and Umgebung (1891).
jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/NEW_NUM/NORDHAUSEN.html   (567 words)

  
 Haddon Herald - News - 11/10/2004 - Holocaust at the German city of Nordhausen, April 1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Suddenly, when our division reached the outskirts of the city of Nordhausen, about 175 miles west of the city of Cologne, all the rumors were replaced by a soul-shattering revelation that exceeded everything we had heard, or could even imagine.
It was the rumor that in this city of Nordhausen was one of the many Nazi death camps that Hitler created for the extermination of all Jewish residents; not only for Jews in Germany but also for Jews residing in all of his occupied territories.
Nordhausen was a badly bombed city of rubble.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1695&dept_id=44219&newsid=13335676&PAG=461&rfi=9   (1472 words)

  
 Nordhausen Concentration Camp (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This camp was created by the SS for prisoners too weak or too ill to work in the tunnels of Dora on the fabrication of the German V1 and V2 rockets.
The extermination methods used by the SS were not the same as the ones used in the great extermination camps: there was no gas chamber but, in Nordhausen, the prisoners died by starvation and total lack of medical care.
The conditions of life in Nordhausen were so terrible that the few survivors often said that "If Dora was the hell of Buchenwald, Nordhausen was the hell of Dora"...
www.jewishgen.org /ForgottenCamps/Camps/NordhausenEng.html   (411 words)

  
 Axis History Forum :: View topic - KL Nordhausen complex -- War Crimes Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Nordhausen, Germany, a city of approximately 39,000 peacetime population, is located eighteen miles east of the Harz Mountains.
Of one group of 4,500 men and 500 women who were moved from Monowitz to Nordhausen in January 1945, a trip lasting approximately eight days, only twice were the passengers given food, at which times each was given one-half loaf of bread and 106 grams of meat.
Upon arrival at Mittelbeau in the Nordhausen area, between 1,000 and 1,300 of the travelers were dead (Exhibits A-1, and Q).
forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=63285   (1543 words)

  
 Nordhausen : 17 October 1806 - Action Report
Nordhausen was a small rear guard action fought on October 17, 1806 between elements of Kalkreuth's fragmented command and part of Soult's IV Corps.
As you approach Nordhausen, from the south on the Erfurt road, it appears they plan to offer battle, or at least fight a rear guard action.
Saint-Hilaire was ordered to attack Nordhausen from the west after passing Darrweg and Level would make a direct assault up the center just west of the main road.
www.napoleonicminiatureswargame.com /1806.nordhausen.html   (625 words)

  
 Nordhausen - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Nordhausen, town in Thuringia, central Germany, on the Zorge River near the city of Erfurt.
The second method of manufacturing sulphuric acid, the contact process, which came into commercial use about 1900, depends on oxidation of sulphur...
Thuringia has theatres in Altenburg, Gera, Eisenach, Erfurt, Meiningen, Nordhausen, Rudolstadt, and Weimar, and 11 eminent orchestras.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Nordhausen.html   (78 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Nordhausen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (134th in leap years).
The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists.
The V-2 rocket or Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance weapon 2) was an early ballistic missile used by the German Army during the later stages of World War II against mostly British and Belgian targets.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nordhausen   (1438 words)

  
 Landkreis Nordhausen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Nordhausen has always been attractive due to its advantageous geographical situation between the Goldene Aue (a fertile plain) and the richly wooded Harz.
The town owes its development to a Franconian palace and not far away a castle built by Heinrich I in the 10th century.
Nordhausen had its economic and cultural heyday as a free Imperial town in the Middle Ages.
www.usd.edu /schatzkammer/nord   (167 words)

  
 Nordhausen, Thuringia, tourism
Nordhausen is another small town where I should have stayed at least for two days to explore some of the main attractions in the town and its surroundings.
Nordhausen has a population of over 43 000 and a high unemployment rate.
I should have done this also in Nordhausen - especially after i learned that some of the vehicles are hybrids which can run on tracks where no electrical power is available.
www.itcwebdesigns.com /tour_germany/nordhausen.htm   (632 words)

  
 Trams, Trains and More - Nordhausen: a small town with big ambitions 1.
The one in the inner side of the loop (nearer the houses) allows one- or bi-directional tramcars to stop while the other is usually used by the diesel motor coaches of the narrow-gauge forest railway, the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH (HSB).
Five diesel motor coaches are prepared according to the prescriptions of the BOStrab (Betriebsordnung Strassenbahn, the operational standards for tramway traffic): they are equipped with brake lights and signalling bells (order numbers 187 015...019).
Next year the new, hybrid powered Combino trams will take part of the Ilfeld line: these will be powered by the overhead cables in the city while in the narrow-gauge railway sections by diesel-engine.
batia.infopace.net /enordhausen.htm   (994 words)

  
 Nordhausen
Above: The entrance to the VI and V2 rocket factory in Kohnstein Hill at Nordhausen, Germany.
Nordhausen fell under Soviet occupation after the war.
Above: Corpses at Nordhausen as they appeared the day Major Maxey entered the camp.
hometown.aol.com /howie183/PhotoAlbum2   (90 words)

  
 Read Some
Nordhausen, ever the devil’s advocate, was constantly jabbing at Dorland’s theory, in spite of his enormous commitment of time and resources to the effort that had brought them all this far.
Nordhausen worked on the sidelines with his team of historical researchers to isolate an appropriate target for their first experiment.
Nordhausen laughed at this, letting the humor cover his retreat as he made his way to his seat at the study table again.
www.dharma6.com /html/read_some.html   (8665 words)

  
 Nordhausen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Self-confidence, diligence and consequently the desire for independence made the citizens and the town council members of Nordhausen realize very early that a good, serious school education was an important foundation for the continuing prosperity of the city.
The first school in Nordhausen was a girls' school, which was founded in 961 together with the nunnery.
The positive economic development of the town and the increasing desire of the bourgeoisie for female education lead to the building of a second school building in 1738.
www2.ellinogermaniki.gr /ep/e-Hermes/EN/outcomes/esem/4rd/nord.htm   (667 words)

  
 Klaus Nordhausen
Nordhausen, K. Comparison between Empirical Bayes and Fully Bayes approaches for conditionally exponential distributed data, Diploma Thesis, Department of Statistics, University of Dortmund.
Nordhausen, K. and Sinha, B. ML Estimation for a Pareto Distribution of the Second Kind in a Sequential Design.
Nordhausen, K. and Nummi, T.: Estimation of the diameter distribution of a stand marked for cutting using finite mixtures.
www.uta.fi /~klaus.nordhausen/list.html   (282 words)

  
 Nordhausen
Nordhausen is a town on the southern side of the Harz Mountains.
There is an excellent sales stall in the former cinema, where books are on sale and harrowing videos can be viewed of the condition of the camp and some of its few surviving inmates as found on liberation.
As the town of Nordhausen was largely destroyed in WWII by bombing, most of the wooden camp buildings were removed for materials for repairing the town buildings.
www.bunkertours.co.uk /nordhaussen.htm   (356 words)

  
 Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp
Easier to pronounce, but impossible to forget, Nordhausen, home of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, was first viewed as just another spot on the map, but became a name to be stamped forever in the annuals of Timberwolf and 3rd Armored history - permanently engraved in the hearts and memories of all present.
The corpses were scattered throughout the buildings and grounds of the large camp and all of them appeared to have been starved to such an extent that they were mere skeletons wrapped in skin.
More than a half-century later, the memories of Nordhausen remain fixed in the minds of the 104th Division Timberwolves who were there and witnessed that terrible evidence of atrocity.
www.104infdiv.org /CONCAMP.HTM   (2272 words)

  
 V2ROCKET.COM - Mittelwerk / DORA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In a meeting on August 26, 1943, a series of pre-existing tunnels under Kohnstein Mountain near Nordhausen were chosen for the new plant, to become known as the Mittelwerk (Middle Works).
One of the first sickening encounters took place at the Boelcke-Kaserne (also called the Nordhausen Camp), a former German military barracks that the SS had used as a dumping ground for prisoners from Mittelbau camps and projects who were too weak or diseased to include in the transports and forced marches out of the area.
As it turned out, Fleisher was the only person remaining in the Nordhausen area who was aware of the general location of the V-2 documents hidden by von Braun’s group.
www.v2rocket.com /start/chapters/mittel.html   (6542 words)

  
 Nordhausen's Classical Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Nordhausen's classical theatre's extensive repertoire includes not only operas, operettas, ballets, and symphony concerts, but also musicals.
Great importance is laid on the numerous special performances aimed at the development of the theatre for children and young people.
Nordhausen's theatre-goers come (once again) from within a radius of 100 km.
www.usd.edu /schatzkammer/nord/theatre.html   (130 words)

  
 Subterranea Britannica: Sites: Nordhausen - Mittelwerk V2 assembly plant and Dora concentration camp
The mine had opened in 1917 and having been abandoned it was commandeered by the Wehrmacht in 1936 for the storage of fuel and poison gas; by mid 1943, the complex was the largest fuel and oil depot in Germany
In October 1943 about 7000 prisoners were housed at Dora to work in the tunnels by January 1944 this has risen to 12,000 and by February 1945 the number had risen again to 19,000.
Precise figures are vague but it is believed that between 40,000 - 64,000 worked on the construction of the facility at Nordhausen of which 26,500 died, many of them during the evacuation during the American advance when there was a mass slaughter of inmates by the SS.
www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/sites/n/nordhausen/index.shtml   (990 words)

  
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The rationale behind our weeklong visit to Nordhausen, Germany was a group project the Higher Diploma in Social Policy 2005 class undertook in October 2004.
The aim was to investigate both Ireland and Germany’s welfare states and the position of lone parents within the welfare states.
In Nordhausen during that week there were many Students and Lecturers from all over Europe working on various projects for the week.
www.ucc.ie /acad/appsoc/hdsp/2004_05/overview_learning-experience.htm   (997 words)

  
 German legacy in the Soviet rocketry
Joachim Umpfenbach initially directed the firings, (10) however the same month, V. Shabransky, one of the specialists from OKB-SD, was appointed the director of the test site, the position he held until Soviet work on rocketry concluded in Germany in January 1947.
Soon after visiting Nordhausen, Soviets dispatched additional groups of specialists to Bleicherode, the last headquarters of Wernher von Braun, before his surrender to the US forces.
The "Nordhausen" was conceived to cover all aspects of the A-4 development, as oppose to Institute Rabe, primarily concentrated on the flight-control system.
www.russianspaceweb.com /rockets_ussr_germany.html   (3994 words)

  
 Nordhausen Germany - German history on the southslopes of the Harz
Nordhausen Germany - German history on the southslopes of the Harz
The Harz Mountains with the poetic Mt. Brocken (Goethe's Faust) - can be reached from Nordhausen by the Harzquerbahn - historic steam engine railway - the ride with it is a must.
Close by Nordhausen: Neustadt with the Festung Hohenstein which was home to the town's mediaeval antagonist Earl of Hohenstein.
www.globosapiens.net /travel-information/Nordhausen-726.html   (518 words)

  
 Nordhausen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Nordhausen is east of Kassel and formerly in the East German Territory.
We stayed in a small town called Bleicherode at the Hotel Confidenz not far from Nordhausen on the recommendation of one of the locals.
Nordhausen is a 1,070 year old town, and Roland signifies the town being proclaimed a free city in the year 1220.
www.ulster.net /~joanneva/nordhaus.htm   (195 words)

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