Word: nordhausen
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...said 50,000 people rallied yesterday in Wismar, on the Baltic coast, demanding free elections and the end of the Communist Party's monopoly on power. Between 35,000 and 40,000 people also rallied in Nordhausen, near Erfurt, and another 20,000 demonstrated in Meiningen, it said...
Last week the Justice Department disclosed that Rudolph, 77, had voluntarily left for West Germany last March and renounced his U.S. citizenship in May. According to the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, beginning in 1943, Rudolph helped procure prisoners from the Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp in central Germany to build tunnels for the underground factory producing V-2 rockets. The laborers lived at the work site, sleeping on bare rock, working with their hands twelve hours a day, seven days a week, without ventilation, heat or drinking water. By the time Germany surrendered, more than a third...
...again. With that, there descended upon her, as she put it, a long "silence." In 1940 Dr. Kollwitz died, and two years later, her grandson-another Peter-was killed on the Russian front. Her house in Berlin was bombed out, and so was the one she moved to in Nordhausen. Finally, she settled in the gamekeeper's lodge on an estate in Moritzburg, a half-hour's drive from Dresden...
This opinion is seconded by a German-speaking U.S. Army officer who was sent to collapsing Germany in 1945 to gather technical information. He went into the fabulous underground factory at Nordhausen where the V-2s were assembled, and found the director still in his office...
Some of the Germans, in relays, were sent to White Sands Proving Grounds, 70 miles north of Fort Bliss, where they taught Americans to fire the V-2s assembled from Nordhausen parts. Last week they were still at work there. White Sands had grown to a great laboratory, staffed with Ordnance, Air Forces, Navy and civilian (General Electric Co.) personnel...