the Holocaust, quick question

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Michel Ryckx wrote:

> 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.

These may have been the people Neufeld was referring to as being brought
from Auschwitz.

I just realized I'd been thinking Leni was Jewish when actually now I
think about it it was another woman in the cell who was. Perhaps this led
me to say Jewish slave labor.  Help.

Of course Leni and Ilse were special cases with special assignments, not
ordinary prisoners.

			P.

> 
> 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.
> 
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