Book about Dora

[Dave Monroe]

Sorry, didn't "reply to everyone" ...

André Sellier.  A History of the Dora Camp:
   The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp
   that Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets. Trans.
   Stephen Wright and Susan Taponier. Chicago:
   Ivan R. Dee, 2003

In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a crisis from which
it was to emerge vanquished. Faced with a shortage of
manpower in armaments factories, the Third Reich sent
concentration camp prisoners to work as slaves. While
the genocide of the Jews and the Gypsies continued at
extermination camps, numerous outside "Kommandos" were
set up in the vicinity of the large concentration
camps. The Dora Camp, located in the center of
Germany, was one of the most notorious. Originally a
mere Kommando attached to Buchenwald, it became one of
the largest Nazi concentration camps. There prisoners
were put to work in a huge underground factory,
building V-2 rockets, the secret weapon developed by
German scientists in an attempt to reverse the course
of the war, under the direction of Wernher von Braun.
In this dispassionate but powerful account, André
Sellier, himself a former prisoner at Dora, tells the
dramatic story of the camp, the tunnel factory, and
the underground work sites. He has utilized all
available documents as well as unpublished testimony
from several dozen fellow prisoners. He recounts the
horrors of everyday life at Dora-prisoners dying by
the hundreds and indescribable suffering-and the
murderous "evacuation" of the camp by railroad convoys
and death marches, which took place in early 1945 and
led to the death of thousands of prisoners.

http://www.ivanrdee.com/Catalog/singlebook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/IRD/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=156663511X

Here's a review ...

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16661084640133

... and note that the intro is by Michael Neufeld (The
Rocket and the Reich).  I only just stumbled on it @
the library yesterday.  The site says 2003, but I
believe the book itself (cloth 1st ed.) says 2004, so
maybe there was a delay.  Will check on German ...

Also, going to a preview of this tomorrow ...

Der Unetergang (2004)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0363163/

... a.k.a. Downfall.  And also in related news ...

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/14/hitlerbook.shtml

Avg. Tuesday @ the P-List, then ...

--- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
>
> Does someone know the book "Histoire du camp de
> Dora" (Paris 1998), written by André Sellier? Is
> there any English or German edition available? It's 

> mentioned in Enzo Traverso's book "La violence
> Nazie. Une généalogie  européenne", German edition:
> "Moderne und Gewalt. Eine europäische Genealogie
> des Nazi-Terrors", Köln 2003, which I'm reading at
> the moment.


		
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