A History of the Dora Camp The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-05-27
Publisher(s): Ivan R. Dee
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Summary

The author, himself a former prisoner at Dora, tells the dramatic story of the camp, the factory, and the underground work sites. He includes unpublished testimony from several dozen prisoners and recounts the horrors of everyday life at Dora and the murderous evacuation of the camp.

Author Biography

Andre Sellier, historian and former diplomat, is the co-author (with his son, Jean) of three atlases -- of the peoples of Central Europe, Western Europe, and the Orient -- published in France. He lives in Picardy

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Introduction 3(8)
PART ONE: BEFORE DORA
1 The State of Germany in August 1943
11(8)
2 The Rocket Program Prior to Dora
19(16)
3 Buchenwald and the Concentration Camp System in 1943
35(14)
PART TWO: THE HELL OF DORA
4 The New Organization of Autumn 1943
49(9)
5 Nine Months of Ordeal
58(14)
6 Death in Dora
72(23)
PART THREE: A TRUE CAMP, A TRUE FACTORY
7 Speer, Kammler, Dornberger, and von Braun in 1944 Germany
95(12)
8 The Peoples of Dora
107(15)
9 The Tunnel Factory and Its Workers
122(27)
10 The Camp at Dora in 1944
149(30)
PART FOUR: RENEWED HELL
11 Kammler's New Work Sites
179(12)
12 Harrungen, Ellrich, and Woffleben
191(31)
13 Rottleberode, Blankenburg, Langenstein, and Other Nearby Camps
222(13)
PART FIVE: THE FINAL MONTHS
14 The End of Auschwitz and Peenemünde
235(30)
Illustrations
243(22)
15 The Final Months at Dora and the Boelcke Kaserne in Nordhausen
265(23)
16 A Chronicle of the Last Days
288(19)
PART SIX: EVACUATION, LIBERATION, RETURN
17 The Great Dispersion of April 1945 and the "Liberation" of Dora
307(12)
18 From Dora, Ellrich, and Harzungen to Bergen-Belsen
319(17)
19 The Five Convoys in Altmark, and the Gardelegen Tragedy
336(16)
20 Death Marches Toward the East, and the Odyssey of the Blankenburg Kommando
352(21)
21 From Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück to the Schwerin Region
373(22)
22 The Dora-Mittelbau Toll
395(12)
EPILOGUE: FIFTY YEARS AFTER DORA
23 After the War: Between Missiles and Trials
407(27)
24 Solidarity and Memory
434(12)
25 Dora Today
446(9)
AFTERWORD: MITTELBAU-DORA IN THE SYSTEM OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS 455(14)
Biographical Glossary 469(4)
Notes 473(25)
Sources 498(3)
Bibliography 501(4)
Maps 505(1)
Index of Prisoners 506(26)
Index of Persons Other Than Prisoners 532(3)
Subject Index 535

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