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A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets
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by Andre Sellier
Sales Rank: 390510
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List Price: $35.00
$23.10
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 544 pages
Published by: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher June 25, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 156663511X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1566635110
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 1.8 inches
Weighs: 2.1 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Despite the plethora of books on the Holocaust, there remain little-known corners to be explored, and Sellier casts light on one of the darkest corners with this account of the Dora Camp, where V-2 rockets-Germany's supposed secret weapon-were produced. The story of this camp, with its underground factory, has been suppressed or ignored by the U.S. government, writes historian Michael Neufeld, because of "its inconvenient connection to an American hero: the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun," who was in charge of testing the rockets. Sellier, a French historian and a survivor of Camp Dora, relates how the factory was manned by slave laborers sent from Buchenwald; describes life in the underground tunnels, where the prisoners not only worked but lived without running water or proper sanitation; and tells of the camp's evacuation by death marches and other means with the approach of Allied forces in 1945. Sellier quotes directly from the chilling testimony of the camp's former inmates, who evoke Dante to convey the hellish nature of life there. This is an important addition to the history of the Holocaust, published in association with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Illus. Maps.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Michael Petersen, University of Maryland, H-Net Book Reviews
Complex, nuanced, and balanced.Selliers book is an important addition to the scholarship on the Holocaust
Reader Reviews
In mid-1943 Nazi Germany faced a shortage of manpower in its factories, and sent slave laborers to work manufacturing weapons. The Dora subcamp was one of the most notorious, putting prisoners to work building V-2 rockets. Sellier himself is a former prisoner at Dora but also a historian and tells the story of the underground work sites. Source documents trace the horror of everyday life and the conflicts of prisoners forced to work against their potential liberators.
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