A History of the Dora Camp

Contents

PART ONE: BEFORE DORA

1 The State of Germany in August 1943

2 The Rocket Program Prior to Dora

3 Buchenwald and the Concentration Camp System in 1943

PART TWO: THE HELL OF DORA

4 The New Organization of Autumn 1943

5 Nine Months of Ordeal

6 Death in Dora

PART THREE: A TRUE CAMP, A TRUE FACTORY

7 Speer, Kammler, Dornberger, and von Braun in 1944 Germany

8 The Peoples of Dora

9 The Tunnel Factory and Its Workers

10 The Camp at Dora in 1944

PART FOUR: RENEWED HELL

11 Kammler’s New Work Sites

12 Harzungen, Ellrich, and Woffleben

13 Rottleberode, Blankenburg, Langenstein, and Other Nearby Camps

PART FIVE: THE FINAL MONTHS

14 The End of Auschwitz and Peenemünde

15 The Final Months at Dora and the Boelcke Kaserne in Nordhausen

16 A Chronicle of the Last Days

PART SIX: EVACUATION, LIBERATION, RETURN

17 The Great Dispersion of April 1945 and the “Liberation” of Dora

18 From Dora, Ellrich, and Harzungen to Bergen-Belsen

19 The Five Convoys in Altmark, and the Gardelegen Tragedy

20 Death Marches Toward the East, and the Odyssey of the Blankenburg Kommando

21 From Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück to the Schwerin Region

22 The Dora-Mittelbau Toll

EPILOGUE: FIFTY YEARS AFTER DORA

23 After the War: Between Missiles and Trials

24 Solidarity and Memory

AFTERWORD: MITTELBAU-DORA IN THE SYSTEM OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Biographical Glossary

Index of Prisoners

Index of Persons Other Than Prisoners