- The
Kohnstein is a hill in Thuringia, Germany, 2
kilometres southwest of the
village of
Niedersachswerfen and 3
kilometres northwest of the
centre of...
- "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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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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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 p****ed
through Dora...
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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...
- 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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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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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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prisoners from the
small F-1
concentration camp
boarded rail cars
bound for
Kohnstein mountain. Two
Polish janitors: 52 of Peenemünde's Camp Tr****enheide in...
