the Holocaust, quick question

[Michel Ryckx]

There may have been jews after the Germans retreated  from Poland and the
surviving jews, after horrible death marches, were put in every camp in Germany
available.

The population of Dora was selected because of their skills.  An arrested French
engineer, active in the maquis, would have been sent easily to Dora.  There were
German engineers (homosexuals) and so on.  The Kapo's were ordinary criminals.

It was no extermination camp, which means its main goal was not to kill people
immediately (like Auschwitz -though Auschwitz had very large sattelite camps like
Treblinka or Birkenau where German factories had large plants -Primo Levi, as a
chemist, survived Auschwitz mainly because he worked at Buna - Birkenau), but to
produce something.  It was, I think, of the 'Nacht und Nebel'-type.

Because they were so skilled, they were able to sabotage sometimes.

There was a crematorium, meant to burn those who died during the night.  There
were a couple of dysenteria epidemics, so death rate was quite high.

Colour pictures, discovered in 1997 (?), are to be seen in New York next month,
and in December in Munich.  I'll try to find out where and when.

Kind regards,
Michel.