| A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets Contributor(s): Sellier, Andre (Author), Neufeld, Michael J. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 156663511X ISBN-13: 9781566635110 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: 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 He includes unpublished testimony from several dozen prisoners and recounts the horrors of everyday life at Dora and the murderous evacuation of the camp. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 2002035164 |
| Series: Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Me |
| Physical Information: 1.64" H x 6.4" W x 9.6" (2.07 lbs) 558 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Topical - Holocaust |
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| Publisher Description: 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 He has utilized all available documents as well as unpublished testimony from several dozen fellow prisoners.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. |