The KZ-Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora, located near Nordhausen in Thüringen, stands as a stark reminder of one of the darker chapters of the Second World War. Initially established in the late summer of 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald, it became an independent concentration camp in the autumn of 1944. Prisoners were forced to work under appalling conditions in a vast network of underground tunnels carved into the Kohnstein mountain. These tunnels, developed for the storage of fuel and later dedicated to the production of the V2 rocket, symbolised both a technological triumph and a humanitarian disaster – tens of thousands of inmates perished from exhaustion, malnutrition, disease, and outright execution.
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