A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets (Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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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 (Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets (Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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Andre Sellier (Author) Michael J. Neufeld (Contributor)  

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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 He has utilized all available documents as well as unpublished testimony from several dozen fellow prisoners.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.
Andre Sellier, historian and former diplomat, is the co-author (with his son, Jean) of The Atlas of the Peoples of Central Europe and The Atlas of the Peoples of the Orient, published in France. He lives in Paris. Michael Neufeld is curator of the Space History Division of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
  • Contributor: Andre Sellier
  • Imprint: Ivan R Dee, Inc
  • ISBN13: 9781566635110
  • Number of Pages: 558
  • Packaged Dimensions: 167x240x41mm
  • Packaged Weight: 943
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
  • Release Date: 2003-07-27
  • Series: Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Andre Sellier, historian and former diplomat, is the co-author (with his son, Jean) of The Atlas of the Peoples of Central Europe and The Atlas of the Peoples of the Orient, published in France. He lives in Paris. Michael Neufeld is curator of the Space History Division of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

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