A history of the Dora Camp / André Sellier ; translated from the French by Stephen Wright and Susan Taponier ; with a foreword by Michael J. Neufeld and an afterword by Jens-Christian Wagner.
"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Museum." Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-504) and indexes.
Contents:
1. Before Dora: The state of Germany in August 1943 -- The rocket program prior to Dora -- Buchenwald and the concentration camp system in 1943 -- 2. The hell of Dora: The new organization of autumn 1943 -- Nine months of ordeal -- Death in Dora -- 3. A true camp, a true factory: Speer, Kammler, Dornberger, and von Braun in 1944 Germany -- The peoples of Dora -- The tunnel factory and its workers -- The camp at Dora in 1944 -- 4. Renewed hell: Kammler's new work sites -- Harzungen, Ellrich, and Woffleben -- Rottleberode, Blankenburg, Langenstein, and other nearby camps -- 5. The final months: The end of Auschwitz and Peenemunde -- The final months at Dora and the Boelcke Kaserne in Nordhausen -- A chronicle of the last days -- 6. Evacuation, liberation, return: The great dispersion of April 1945 and the liberation of Dora -- From Dora, Ellrich, and Harzungen to Bergen-Belsen -- The five convoys in Altmark, and the Gardelegen tragedy -- Death marches toward the east, and the odyssey of the Blankenburg kommando -- From Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck to the Schwerin region -- The Dora-Mittelbau toll -- Epilogue: fifty years after Dora -- After thew ar: between missiles and trials -- Solidarity and memory -- Dora today -- Afterword: Mittelbau-Dora in the system of Nazi concentration camps.
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