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By Andre Sellier,Michael J. Neufeld

In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a main issue from which it used to be to emerge vanquished. confronted with a scarcity of manpower in armaments factories, the 3rd Reich despatched focus camp prisoners to paintings as slaves. whereas the genocide of the Jews and the Gypsies persisted at extermination camps, various outdoor "Kommandos" have been organize within the area of the big focus camps. The Dora Camp, positioned within the middle of Germany, was once the most infamous. initially an insignificant Kommando hooked up to Buchenwald, it grew to become one of many greatest Nazi focus camps. There prisoners have been placed to paintings in a big underground manufacturing unit, construction V-2 rockets, the key weapon constructed by means of German scientists in an try and opposite the process the warfare, lower than the course of Wernher von Braun. during this dispassionate yet strong account, André Sellier, himself a former prisoner at Dora, tells the dramatic tale of the camp, the tunnel manufacturing unit, and the underground paintings websites. He has applied all on hand files in addition to unpublished testimony from a number of dozen fellow prisoners. He recounts the horrors of daily life at Dora—prisoners death by means of the masses and indescribable suffering—and the murderous "evacuation" of the camp through railroad convoys and demise marches, which came about in early 1945 and resulted in the demise of hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Illustrated with 20 pages of images and drawings, and 24 maps.

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