Nordhausen Concentration Camp

The Nordhausen Concentration Camp, so-called after its location five miles from the town center of Nordhausen, Germany, was one of several Nazi death camps. In its official function, it was a specialized slave labor camp. Originally a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Nordhausen became a full camp in October 1944, with large underground facilities where slave labor worked on V-2 missiles and other war production. The brutal conditions of the camp are documented in the Warfare History Network's article called "The Liberation of the Nordhausen Concentration Camp".

Rewriting of history by social media

The locations of Nazi death camps were originally used to refer to the camps, at least in the U.S.. The U.S. government-run National Archives at College Park, Maryland, holds records referring to several World War II Nazi concentration camps by location, including Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenberg, Nordhausen, and Mauthausen.

In 2023, Wikipedia calls the Nordhausen Concentration Camp Dora-Mittelbau instead, and this name has also been adopted by some other online sites. This naming choice in Wikipedia has made it possible for the modern city of Nordhausen, Germany to disassociate itself from the horrors that were perpetrated in the camp, by making sure that the long article on Nordhausen includes only a brief reference to the concentration camp (now free of its town name), and in a photo subtitle, the Wikipedia Nordhausen article refers to the camp as an "underground factory".