Nordhausen

Nord­hausen – town in Thuringia. In the for­mer Luft­waffe bar­racks was one of the largest camps for forced labour­ers who assem­bled jet engines for the Junkers com­pa­ny. In Jan­u­ary 1945, part of the site became a branch camp of the Mit­tel­bau con­cen­tra­tion camp for dying and sick pris­on­ers unable to work, where three thou­sand pris­on­ers died over the next three months on the floors of con­crete sheds with­out any facilities.