Dora and the V–2 - Slave labor in the space age

[David Morris]

http://www.dora.uah.edu/index.html

This website provides information for an exhibit at the UAHuntsville
Salmon Library from February 21-March 12, 2010 entitled Dora and the
V–2: Slave Labor in the Space Age. Both the site and the exhibit
explore the history of forced labor in the construction of the V–2
missiles at the Dora concentration camp and Mittelwerk underground
factory near Nordhausen, Germany, during World War II.

The stories center on the victims of Dora, the prisoners from many
nations who were forced to work in the camp and its sub-camps and in
the underground factory assembling the V–2. Usually, especially in
Huntsville, Alabama, the V–2 is remembered through the engineers who
designed it, rather than the forced laborers who put it together. Yet
the prisoners died by the score or lived through dehumanizing cruelty,
and their experiences deserve to be remembered.