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