the Holocaust, quick question

[Dave Monroe]

... a few hyperlinks here, the first of which contains some recently taken color
photos ...

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/7087/uk017.htm
http://members.aol.com/InfDiv104/CONCAMP.HTM
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3564/

... also, off the top of my head, do see Yves Beon, Planet Dora: A Memoir of the
Holocaust and teh Birth of the Space Age.  The introduction is by Micahel Neufeld,
whose excellent The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballsitic
Missile Era has been mentioned a few times here, and not only by me.  Man, I've got a
lot of stuff to haul back out now ...

... but I would note that, the unique character of Dora aside, it was, indeed, a
concentration camp, prisoners, people, were, indeed, enslaved, tortured, and,
ultiamtely, killed there, there were indeed Jews there, at least by the time, for
example, that Gravity's Rainbow is set, but, Jewish prisoners or no, Dora did indeed
serve an active role in the Holocaust, not sure that I have to, why I feel I have to,
point that out, but, lately here, well ...

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.
>
> 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.