the Holocaust, quick question

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 kevin at limits.org wrote:

> Disclaimer:
> I don't have any books with me here in the office, so I must rely on
> memory for the facts.
> 
> Paul Mackin writes:
> "Everyone knows Jewish slave labor was used in the production of the
> rockets."
> 
> Was it?
> 
> My understanding is that the inmates at Dora, and before that, Pennemunde,
> were exclusively non-Jewish mostly Slavs at PM and also German homosexuals
> at Dora.

This was true for most of the time the camp was in operation but I thought
there were Jews also by the time the Americans arrived. I'll look it up.

		P.


> 
> Jewish slave labor was, of course, used at the Mauthausen quarry, IG
> Farben's Auschwitz plant, and all across Speer's economy, but I believe
> that the direct manufacture of the rockets and their components/ fuel was
> done by others.
> 
> Is there anyone out there with a book on the rocket program or the labor
> camps who can verify this?
> 
> 
> Kevin Troy
>