Dora

[jbor]

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>From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
>

> 
http://history1900s.about.com/homework/history1900s/library/holocaust/blchar
t.htm
> In a chart entitled,  "Concentration and Death Camps" this reference
> describes Dora/Mittelbau as a concentration camp, not a labour camp:
> "Sub-camp of
> Buchenwald; Concentration (After 10/44)".  The types of camp listed
> on this chart are:  extermination, concentration, assembly/detention,
> transit, concentration/extermination, and concentration/transit -- no
> listings for "death camps" or "labour camps". This chart is part of
> About.com's larger discussion of the Holocaust, of course.

Seems to me the heading here is making a distinction, as also are the
columns underneath. There were *different* types of camps. Prisoners in Dora
being used as labour (and dying) is not the same as prisoners at Auschwitz
being led to the gas chambers to be systematically annihilated. Slave labour
and racial genocide are not the same thing. The former is depicted in GR,
the latter is not. Pynchon makes a distinction: Dora-Mittelbau is in some
way 'different' to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. (p.666)

Still no apology.