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This forgotten train line,
which was never completed, was rediscovered during the '90s
after the Reunification. Construction of the
Helmets Valley Line started in 1944, with the use of forced labour
from the nearby concentration camp at Nordhausen - Mittelbau-Dora. The Nazis had ordered the prisoners
to lay the standard gauge track at high speed in order to relieve
the build-up of rail traffic on the main line
which was never completed, was rediscovered during the '90s
after the Reunification. Construction of the
Helmets Valley Line started in 1944, with the use of forced labour
from the nearby concentration camp at Nordhausen - Mittelbau-Dora. The Nazis had ordered the prisoners
to lay the standard gauge track at high speed in order to relieve
the build-up of rail traffic on the main line
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This forgotten train line,
which was never completed,
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was rediscovered during the '90s
after the Reunification.
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Construction of the
Helmets Valley Line started in 1944,
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with the use of forced labour
from the nearby concentration camp
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at Nordhausen - Mittelbau-Dora.
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The Nazis had ordered the prisoners
to lay the standard gauge track
00:00:28.006 --> 00:00:31.096
at high speed in order to relieve
the build-up of rail traffic
00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:33.000
on the main line.
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Movie Summary
Many of the world's most spectacular railways are surrounded by mysterious stories, tales and sagas. But these back stories have been lost to the passing years and are now unknown even to those using the railways daily.
