"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1

[Michael J. Hußmann]

jbor at bigpond.com (jbor at bigpond.com) wrote:

> Dora was not a death camp, it was a labour camp

Given that the ultimate aim of those labour camps was defined as (in
Nazi terminology) "Vernichtung durch Arbeit", one could argue that both
were one and the same. The difference between death camps and labour
camps was one of emphasis -- on killing most of the prisoners as fast as
possible (children and the elderly first, those still useful as slaves
later), or on keeping them as slaves until they either died of
exhaustion or were murdered when they couldn't work any longer. If KZ
Dora had been just about supplying the workforce for assembling as many
V2 as possible, as fast as possible, then the prisoners would have been
treated better.

- Michael


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