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English: Aftermath of the British bombing raid of 3 and 4 April 1945 that destroyed the Boelcke-Kaserne (Boelcke Barracks) located in the south-east of the town of Nordhausen and killed around 1300 inmates. The barracks was a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora Nazi concentration camp. Used as an overflow camp for sick and dying inmates from January 1945, numbers rose from a few hundred to over 6000, and the conditions saw up to 100 inmates die every day. The camp was named after Oswald Boelke.
עברית: שורות של גופות מאות אסירים בחצר מחצה הריכוז נורדהאוזן. בתמונה נראות פחות ממחצית הגופות של האסירים שמתו ברעב או ביריות אנשי הגסטפו.
Italiano: 12 aprile 1945, le Boelcke-Kaserne (baracche Boelcke) a sud-est della città di Nordhaushen, bombardate fra il 3 e il 4 aprile 1945 dall'aviazione britannica causando la morte di 1300 prigionieri. Le baracche costituivano un sottocampo del campo di Mittelbau-Dora. Vi venivano reclusi i moribondi del campo e a partire dal gennaio del 1945 il loro numero crebbe da qualche centinaio a oltre seimila, con una mortalità che arrivava a cento persone al giorno.
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Camera location51° 29′ 29.32″ N, 10° 48′ 31.63″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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12:34, 22 August 2005Thumbnail for version as of 12:34, 22 August 2005600 × 483 (331 KB)PetrusbarbygereRows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp. This photo shows less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men. Germany, 04/12/1945 Source: h

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