A History of the Dora CampI.R. Dee, 2003 - 547 sider In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a crisis from which it was to emerge vanquished. Faced with a shortage of manpower in armaments factories, the Third Reich sent concentration camp prisoners to work as slaves. While the genocide of the Jews and the Gypsies continued at extermination camps, numerous outside "Kommandos" were set up in the vicinity of the large concentration camps. The Dora Camp, located in the center of Germany, was one of the most notorious. Originally a mere Kommando attached to Buchenwald, it became one of the largest Nazi concentration camps. There prisoners were put to work in a huge underground factory, building V-2 rockets, the secret weapon developed by German scientists in an attempt to reverse the course of the war, under the direction of Wernher von Braun. In this dispassionate but powerful account, Andr Sellier, himself a former prisoner at Dora, tells the dramatic story of the camp, the tunnel factory, and the underground work sites. He has utilized all available documents as well as unpublished testimony from several dozen fellow prisoners. He recounts the horrors of everyday life at Dora--prisoners dying by the hundreds and indescribable suffering--and the murderous "evacuation" of the camp by railroad convoys and death marches, which took place in early 1945 and led to the death of thousands of prisoners. Illustrated with 20 pages of photographs and drawings, and 24 maps. |
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Introduction | 3 |
BEFORE DORA | 9 |
The State of Germany in August 1943 II | 11 |
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AADE American André April April 11 arrested arrived at Dora August Auschwitz barracks Belgian Bergen-Belsen Berlin Blankenburg Block Boelcke Kaserne bombing Bornemann Braun Buchenwald chapter civilians column communist comrades concentration camp convoy corpses crematorium CV Fondation Czechs Dachau death deportees Dora camp Dora Tunnel Dora-Ellrich Dora-Mittelbau Dornberger Dutillieux east Elbe Ellrich evacuation February Fliecx France French prisoners Gardelegen German Gross Rosen halls Harzungen Himmler Hitler Ibid identity numbers Jacques January Jean Jews Kammler Kapo Kohnstein Kommando Konzentrationslager Langenstein later letter liberated Magdeburg Marcel March Mauthausen Mialet Michel Mittelbau Mittelbau-Dora Mittelwerk months narrative account Nazi Neuengamme Niedersachswerfen night Nordhausen number of prisoners Oranienburg Paris Peenemünde Pierre railway Rassinier Ravensbrück Reich remained repatriated Revier rocket Rogerie Rottleberode Russians Sachsenhausen Sadron Schonung sent September sick Soviet Speer survivors Thuringia tion took place train transferred transport tunnel factory underground Wieda WIFO Woffleben