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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sellier, André.

Contributor:

Wright, Stephen.

Taponier, Susan.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Standardized Title:

Histoire du Camp de Dora. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Dora (Concentration camp)--History.

Dora (Concentration camp).

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 547 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : I.R. Dee, 2003.

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 He includes unpublished testimony from several dozen prisoners and recounts the horrors of everyday life at Dora and the murderous evacuation of the camp.

Contents:

Part 1 Before Dora

1 The State of Germany in August 1943 11

2 The Rocket Program Prior to Dora 19

3 Buchenwald and the Concentration Camp System in 1943 35

Part 2 The Hell of Dora

4 The New Organization of Autumn 1943 49

5 Nine Months of Ordeal 58

6 Death in Dora 72

Part 3 A True Camp, a True Factory

7 Speer, Kammler, Dornberger, and von Braun in 1944 Germany 95

8 The Peoples of Dora 107

9 The Tunnel Factory and Its Workers 122

10 The Camp at Dora in 1944 149

Part 4 Renewed Hell

11 Kammler's New Work Sites 179

12 Harzungen, Ellrich, and Woffleben 191

13 Rottleberode, Blankenburg, Langenstein, and Other Nearby Camps 222

Part 5 The Final Months

14 The End of Auschwitz and Peenemunde 235

15 The Final Months at Dora and the Boelcke Kaserne in Nordhausen 265

16 A Chronicle of the Last Days 288

Part 6 Evacuation, Liberation, Return

17 The Great Dispersion of April 1945 and the "Liberation" of Dora 307

18 From Dora, Ellrich, and Harzungen to Bergen-Belsen 319

19 The Five Convoys in Altmark, and the Gardelegen Tragedy 336

20 Death Marches Toward the East, and the Odyssey of the Blankenburg Kommando 352

21 From Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck to the Schwerin Region 373

22 The Dora-Mittelbau Toll 395

Epilogue: Fifty Years After Dora

23 After the War: Between Missiles and Trials 407

24 Solidarity and Memory 434

25 Dora Today 446

Afterword: Mittelbau-Dora in the System of Nazi Concentration Camps 455.

Notes:

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-504) and indexes.

ISBN:

156663511X

OCLC:

50851936