A History of the Dora Camp The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets

by Sellier, Andre; Neufeld, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9781566635110
• ISBN10: 156663511X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-27
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

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 He includes unpublished testimony from several dozen prisoners and recounts the horrors of everyday life at Dora and the murderous evacuation of the camp.

Author Biography

Andre Sellier, historian and former diplomat, is the co-author (with his son, Jean) of three atlases -- of the peoples of Central Europe, Western Europe, and the Orient -- published in France. He lives in Picardy

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Introduction	3	(8)
PART ONE: BEFORE DORA
1 The State of Germany in August 1943	11	(8)
2 The Rocket Program Prior to Dora	19	(16)
3 Buchenwald and the Concentration Camp System in 1943	35	(14)
PART TWO: THE HELL OF DORA
4 The New Organization of Autumn 1943	49	(9)
5 Nine Months of Ordeal	58	(14)
6 Death in Dora	72	(23)
PART THREE: A TRUE CAMP, A TRUE FACTORY
7 Speer, Kammler, Dornberger, and von Braun in 1944 Germany	95	(12)
8 The Peoples of Dora	107	(15)
9 The Tunnel Factory and Its Workers	122	(27)
10 The Camp at Dora in 1944	149	(30)
PART FOUR: RENEWED HELL
11 Kammler's New Work Sites	179	(12)
12 Harrungen, Ellrich, and Woffleben	191	(31)
13 Rottleberode, Blankenburg, Langenstein, and Other Nearby Camps	222	(13)
PART FIVE: THE FINAL MONTHS
14 The End of Auschwitz and Peenemünde	235	(30)
Illustrations	243	(22)
15 The Final Months at Dora and the Boelcke Kaserne in Nordhausen	265	(23)
16 A Chronicle of the Last Days	288	(19)
PART SIX: EVACUATION, LIBERATION, RETURN
17 The Great Dispersion of April 1945 and the "Liberation" of Dora	307	(12)
18 From Dora, Ellrich, and Harzungen to Bergen-Belsen	319	(17)
19 The Five Convoys in Altmark, and the Gardelegen Tragedy	336	(16)
20 Death Marches Toward the East, and the Odyssey of the Blankenburg Kommando	352	(21)
21 From Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück to the Schwerin Region	373	(22)
22 The Dora-Mittelbau Toll	395	(12)
EPILOGUE: FIFTY YEARS AFTER DORA
23 After the War: Between Missiles and Trials	407	(27)
24 Solidarity and Memory	434	(12)
25 Dora Today	446	(9)
AFTERWORD: MITTELBAU-DORA IN THE SYSTEM OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS	455	(14)
Biographical Glossary	469	(4)
Notes	473	(25)
Sources	498	(3)
Bibliography	501	(4)
Maps	505	(1)
Index of Prisoners	506	(26)
Index of Persons Other Than Prisoners	532	(3)
Subject Index	535