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Nordhausen

American  
[nawrt-hou-zuhn] / ˈnɔrtˌhaʊ zən /

noun

  1. a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.


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Historians have delved into the extent to which German rocketeers were complicit in atrocious conditions at an underground factory near Nordhausen that produced the V-2, the world’s first long-range, guided ballistic missile.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 1, 2020

On April 3, 1945, Nordhausen was bombed by the U.S.

From Fox News Jan. 27, 2020

Army, who liberated Nordhausen concentration camp in Germany in 1945.

From Reuters Jan. 15, 2020

She has spent much of the past year living far from her family in Nordhausen, Thuringia, in order to obtain her German school leaving certificate.

From The Guardian Aug. 30, 2017

When his father would no longer consent to his staying at home, he left, ostensibly for Halle, the university town, to be examined, but really for Nordhausen to seek entrance into the gymnasium.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)

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