In the 1930s the Nazi Party came to power in Germany . It imposed discrimination against Jews , with increasing restrictions and violence such as Kristallnacht in 1938 , when businesses and synagogues were destroyed . It deported Jews to concentration and death camps . The Mittelbau-Dora Nazi concentration camp , established in 1943 after the destruction of Peenemünde , was located on the outskirts of Nordhausen during World War II to provide labor for the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket factory in the Kohnstein . Over its period of operation , around 60,000 inmates passed through Dora and its system of subcamps , of whom around 20,000 died from bad working conditions , starvation , and diseases , or were murdered . Around 10,000 forced labourers were deployed in several factories within the city ; up to 6,000 of them were interned at Boelcke Kaserne , working for a Junkers factory
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Nordhausen