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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Example Sentences

As a result, there’s a particular significance to the prospect of an AfD mayor in a city like Nordhausen, given the work that has been done there to preserve the Mittelbau-Dora camp as a site of memory and to rebuild trust among Holocaust survivors.

From Washington Times

In 1943, her older brother Jean-Pierre was arrested as a political prisoner and taken to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany, where he would die three weeks before it was liberated.

From Seattle Times

In Anthony Giacchino’s “Colette,” Colette Marin-Catherine, a former French resistance member, agrees, at 90, to visit the concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany, where her brother, who was also in resistance, died.

From New York Times

She is impatient with sanctimony: At a dinner in Nordhausen, she cuts off a former mayor’s speech.

From New York Times

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