Routes - Day 6 Part 2 - Mittelbau-Dora to DJH Hagen

Whilst I am in the area I thought about checking out some other sights.  

I had, with my brother Neill, a trip planned for the beginning of August 2021 on the path of the Dambusters with visits to the three main dams, Möhne, Eder and Sorpe.  Incorporating some of the crash sites and memorials to the aircrews of the downed Lancasters. That got scrapped due to Covid when Germany closed the borders to us from the UK.

All three dams are not that far off the A44 run between Dora and Hagen. So I have added a loop to visit all three.

It will be a long old day and plenty of sights to visit, but what else am I  going to do?

Routes - Day 6 Part 1 - Schloss Colditz to Mittelbau-Dora

This is planned as the first stop for me. Once again, a revisit to a place that needs to be seen to remember the horrors of the Holocaust. This is technically not a death camp, but that doesn't mean that hundreds of captive workers died as slave labour for the Nazis.

Once on the motorway it is a quite run westwards from Colditz.

Stop Added - Mittelbau-Dora

On the way back I have added a short detour between Colditz and Hägen. 

It's the former Nazi camp called Mittelbau-Dora. It was a forced labour camp rather than a death camp. However, the numbers of inmates that died was awful.

It's on the outskirts of a town called Nordhausen. How they didn't know it was there is hard to believe. I have been before and I feel once in the area it would be good to drop in and take a look again.

More info on Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelbau-Dora_concentration_camp