Speer

jbor at bigpond.com jbor at bigpond.com
Wed May 18 16:57:14 CDT 2005


I don't think there has ever been any question that Speer didn't know 
about the Dora camp. But the documentary makes the claim that he also 
knew what was happening at Auschwitz; Speer always maintained that he 
didn't.

best

>
>> From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Speers
>>
>>
> http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=13687
>>
>> Regarding a new documentary that, despite his protests otherwise,
>> purports
>> Albert Speers was aware of the death camps...
>
> Of course he was. The war economy he was responsible for running
> depended on slave labor culled from the death-camps. The numbers in "A
> History of the Dora Camp" are curious: each V2 missile produced (not
> including prototypes for testing) killed on average one person in the
> target city, while five slaves died making it.




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