the Holocaust, quick question

[Paul Mackin]

Have been perusing Neufeld's The Rocket and the Reich of which many pages
are devoted to Dora. Speaking of Mittelwerk he says "By October (1943 I
presume) there were four thousand prisoners in the tunnnels, all male and
predominantly Russian, Polish, and French. (None were Jews; in line with
its racial ideology, the SS lumped them into a separate category,
regardless of nationality, and assigned none to Dora until the summer of
1944.) . . ." 

I didn't see any reference to what the situation with regard to Jew's
was AFTER the summer of 1944. There was reference to later arrivals from
Auschwitz but it didn't designate.

So apparently by implication there were some Jews at the factory late in
the war but whether many or few is not stated. 

			P.




On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Paul Mackin wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> > 
>