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History > WW2 > 1939-1945
Axis powers, Germany, Europe > Antisemitism, Adolf Hitler, Nazi era, Holocaust / Shoah, Samudaripen
Dora-Mittelbau / Dora-Nordhausen / Nordhausen
Holocaust of Gardelegen
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The holocaust of Gardelegen took place on April 13.
German SS guards tried to burn between 500 and 1, 000 prisoners to prevent their being liberated by advancing Americans.
There are approximately 150 corpses on the warehouse floor.
In the background are three soldiers of the US 9th Army who took Gardelegen on April 17 and found the building still burning.
Location: Gardelegen, Germany Date taken: April 17, 1945
Photographer: William Vandivert
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Colette A 90 ans, une ancienne Résistante française raconte le combat contre le fascisme-Oscars 2021 G 18 November 2020
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as little as $1 by visiting the German concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora where her brother was killed.
As a young girl, she fought Hitler's Nazis as a member of the French Resistance.
For 74 years, she has refused to step foot in Germany, but that changes when a young history student named Lucie enters her life.
Prepared to re-open old wounds and revisit the terrors of that time,
Marin-Catherine offers important lessons for us all. explain how they found out about the story of Colette and why they decided to make a documentary about her.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/nov/18/
Colette Marin-Catherine, 90 ans, confronte son passé en se rendant au camp de concentration allemand Mittelbau-Dora où son frère a été assassiné.
Jeune fille, elle combattait les Nazis aux côtés de la Résistance française.
Cela faisait 74 ans qu’elle refusait de mettre les pieds en Allemagne.
Mais cette revendication est bouleversée lorsque Lucie, une jeune étudiante en histoire, entre dans sa vie.
Préparée à rouvrir de vieilles blessures et à revisiter les terreurs de son passé, Colette nous offre à tous des leçons de vie essentielles.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7uBf1gD6JY
Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph 1906-1996
A German-born space official who developed the rocket that carried Americans to the moon has quietly left the United States and surrendered his citizenship rather than face Justice Department charges that he had brutalized slave laborers at a Nazi rocket factory during World War II.
Announcing the action yesterday in a brief statement, the Justice Department said that the official, Arthur Rudolph, as director for production of V-2 rockets at an underground factory attached to the Dora-Nordhausen camp from 1943 to 1945, ''participated in the persecution of forced laborers, including concentration camp inmates, who were employed there under inhumane conditions.''
A third to one half of Dora's 60,000 prisoners died.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which had awarded high awards to Mr. Rudolph for his work for the agency from 1962 from 1969, had no comment on the Justice Department announcement. (Page A13.)
The announcement on Mr. Rudolph, who was brought to the United States in 1945 with Wernher von Braun and more than a hundred other Nazi German technicians and scientists, was negotiated in advance with Mr. Rudolph.
The announcement did not mention his prominent role in the United States space and missile programs.
Nor did it say where he had gone. Investigators said it was West Germany.
Officials said it was unlikely that Mr. Rudolph, who is 77 years old, would face prosecution in West Germany as the statute of limitations has expired.
Mr. Rudolph was not carried on an Allied list of war criminals drawn up after the war
Other officials of the rocket factory were convicted of war crimes and jailed or executed - NYT, Oct. 18, 1984
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/18/
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/18/
April 13, 1945
Holocaust of Gardelegen
Following the U.S. Army's crossing of the Rhine River and push into central Germany, the SS camp administration at Dora-Mittelbau ordered the evacuation of prisoners from the main camp and a number of its affiliated subcamps on April 3 and 4th.
The goal was to transport the inmates by train or by foot to the concentration camps in Bergen-Belsen, or Neuengamme.
Within days, some 4,000 prisoners from Dora-Mittelbau, its satellite camps, and a Neuengamme subcamp arrived in the Gardelegen area, where they had to dismount from the freight cars because the trains could not advance any further due to air raid damage to the rail lines.
Greatly outnumbered by the prisoners, the SS guards began recruiting auxiliary forces from the local fire department, the air force, the aged home guard, the Hitler Youth, and other organizations to watch over the inmates.
On April 13th, more than a thousand prisoners, many of them sick and too weak to march any further, were taken from the town of Gardelegen to a large barn on the Isenschnibbe estate and forced inside the building.
The assembled guards then barricaded the doors and set fire to gasoline-soaked straw. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006173
This victim of Nazi inhumanity still rests in the position in which he died, attempting to rise and escape his horrible death.
He was one of 150 prisoners savagely burned to death by Nazi SS troops.
Sgt. E. R. Allen, Gardelegen, Germany, April 16, 1945. 111-SC-203572. Pictures of World War II US National Archives http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-179.jpg http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/?template=print#holocaust
Smoke still rising from corpses of prisoners at the concentration camp at Gardelegen who were burned alive by their Nazi captors.
Location: Gardelegen, Germany Date taken: April 1945
Photograph: William Vandivert
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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/
Germany
Dora-Mittelbau / Dora-Nordhausen / Nordhausen
Extermination camp
Freed prisoner, face twisted w. grief & relief, after the Nordhausen concentration camp was liberated by Allied troops.
Location: Nordhausen, Germany
Date taken: April 1945
Photographer: John Florea
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American soldiers walking past rows and rows of corpses at the Nordhausen concentration camp just after its liberation.
Location: Nordhausen, Germany
Date taken: April 1945
Photographer: John Florea
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German civilians being forced by the Allies to bury prisoners killed at the Nordhausen concentration camp.
Location: Nordhausen, Germany
Date taken: April 1945
Photographer: John Florea
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German male civilians being forced by the Allies to dig graves for the prisoners killed at the Nordhausen concentration camp.
Location: Nordhausen, Germany
Date taken: April 1945
Photographer: John Florea
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German civilians being forced by the Allies to bury prisoners killed at the Nordhausen concentration camp.
Location: Nordhausen, Germany
Date taken: April 1945
Photographer: John Florea
Life Images
Dora-Mittelbau / Dora-Nordhausen / Nordhausen
Holocaust of Gardelegen
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/victor-d/blog/100324/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/nov/18/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/18/
https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2020/09/24/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/18/
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