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The Kohnstein is a mountain, 2 km southwest of the village of Niedersachswerfen and 3 km northwest of the center of the city of Nordhausen (state of Thuringia, Germany). Mining created tunnels in the mountain that were later used as a depot and for WWII factories, including the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket factory that used Mittelbau-Dora slave labor. (...)

Dora (also Mittelbau or Nordhausen) was a Nazi concentration camp established on August 28, 1943, near Nordhausen to provide labor for the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket production in the Kohnstein. The Mittelbau-Dora camps eventually comprised more than 40 camps.[link Outside camps of KZ Dora-Mittelbau (Map)][link (...)

and the Harz narrow gauge mainline (Harzquerbahn). In Deutsche Reichsbahn of the GDR days it had large refreshment rooms and staff. It is still however a busy interchange at certain times of day when steam trains and railcars converge from the 3 directions to make (...)