Mittelbau-Dora Liberation Anniversary Marked

"During the Second World War, it was a place of unimaginable horror, where thousands of people died under the brutal watch of the SS.
But today the site of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, near Nordhausen in central Germany, was a place of quiet reconciliation, as a crowd gathered to remember the 71th anniversary of its liberation by U.S. troops.
Former inmates and other survivors of Nazi persecution laid flowers at the site of the labour camp, which is now a memorial and museum.
Those attending included Herman Rols, 98, from France, and Albert van Hoey, of Belgium.
Mittelbau-Dora originated as an external unit of Buchenwald, one of the first and largest concentration camps on German soil.
It was established as a concentration camp in its own right in the summer of 1943 - when it was known as Dora - and existed for just over a year and a half.
The site was used to produce V-2 rockets - the powerful missiles that the Germans used to attack Allied cities - after a RAF bombing raid destroyed the factory where they were previously made.
Inmates were initially housed by the SS in the Mittelwerk, as the tunnels intended to be the new underground rocket production site were called."
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