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A History of the Dora Camp - The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets (Hardcover)
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A History of the Dora Camp - The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets (Hardcover)
Series: Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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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,
Andre 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unpublished testimony from several dozen fellow prisoners.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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