Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
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Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp was a Nazi forced labor camp in Germany where prisoners were brutally exploited to build V-2 rockets in underground tunnels during World War II.
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Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi concentration camp
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forced labour camp → |
| administeredBy |
SS-Totenkopfverbände
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| associatedWith |
German war economy
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Mittelwerk GmbH → V-2 rocket program → |
| category |
Holocaust locations in Germany
→
Nazi concentration camps in Germany → World War II forced labour camps → |
| causeOfDeath |
disease
→
executions → exhaustion → mistreatment → starvation → |
| country |
Nazi Germany
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| dissolved |
April 1945
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| endDate |
1945-04
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| established |
August 1943
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| estimatedDeaths |
over 20,000 prisoners
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| hasFacility |
Mittelwerk underground factory
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camp barracks → crematorium → punishment cells → roll-call square → underground tunnels → |
| hasPart |
Mittelbau-Dora Memorial
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| knownFor |
extremely harsh working conditions
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high mortality rate → underground slave labour → |
| liberatedBy |
United States Army
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| liberationDate |
1945-04-11
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| locatedIn |
Germany
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Harz → Nordhausen NERFINISHED → Thuringia NERFINISHED → |
| memorialEstablished |
1964
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| notableCommander |
Hans Kammler
→
Otto Förschner NERFINISHED → Richard Baer → |
| operatedDuring |
World War II
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| operator |
SS
→
Schutzstaffel → |
| partOf |
Mittelbau-Dora camp complex
→
Nazi concentration camp system → |
| postWarUse |
Soviet military site
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memorial site → |
| prisonerOrigin |
French prisoners
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Jewish prisoners → Polish prisoners → Soviet prisoners of war → other occupied European countries → political prisoners → |
| prisonerPopulation |
tens of thousands of prisoners
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| purpose |
exploitation of forced labour
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production of secret weapons → |
| startDate |
1943-08
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| subcampOf |
Buchenwald concentration camp
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| subjectOf |
Dora Trial at Dachau
→
war crimes trials → |
| usedFor |
V-1 flying bomb production
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V-2 rocket production → arms production → underground weapons manufacturing → |
| workType |
construction work
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transport of materials → tunnel excavation → weapons assembly → |
Referenced by (8)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
("Mittelbau-Dora camp complex")
→
Mittelwerk underground factory ("Mittelbau-Dora complex") → |
partOf |
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V-2 rocket
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associatedCamp |
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Buchenwald Trial
("Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp")
→
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concernedPlace |
|
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
("Mittelbau-Dora Memorial")
→
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hasPart |
|
Buchenwald
("Mittelbau-Dora")
→
|
hasSubcamp |
|
Mittelwerk underground factory
→
|
near |
|
Mittelwerk underground factory
→
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suppliedBy |