Book ID: CBB001180276

Planet Dora: A memoir of the Holocaust and the birth of the space age (1997)

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Béon, Yves (Author)
Neufeld, Michael J. (Author)


Westview Press
Publication date: 1997
Language: English


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xxviii + 250 pp.; ill.; maps

Description Abstract: A memoir by a survivor of the Nazi camps, Yves Beon, Planet Dora is a recollection of life and death in a concentration camp. Dora was an underground factory cut out of solid rock, where thousands of prisoners were beaten, starved, killed, and lived underground for weeks at a time. The purpose of all this brutality was to build the world's first operational rockets: the V-1 and V-2 missiles. Some of Germany's most brilliant scientists were involved with production at Dora, including Wernher von Braun, who after the war went on to become the father of the American space program. It was his Saturn V rocket, designed with the help of his wartime comrades, that put the first man on the moon, while the Saturn V project was headed by the man who had been the director of slave labor in Dora. In fact, some of the very rockets built in Dora were packed up after the war and shipped to New Mexico to serve as the seeds of the U.S. space program. (abbreviated from WorldCat)


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Authors & Contributors
Neufeld, Michael J.
Biddle, Wayne
Gainor, Christopher
Laney, Monique
Marchis, Vittorio
Maris, Etta
Journals
American Historical Review
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Historical Archaeology
Publishers
Alfred A. Knopf
Free Press
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Natuurwetenschap & Techniek
Naval Institute Press
Praeger
Concepts
Rockets; rocketry
Biographies
Space travel; space flight
World War II
Space programs
Concentration camps
People
Von Braun, Wernher
Ley, Willy
Bonestell, Chesley
Oberth, Hermann
Goddard, Robert Hutchings
Tsiolkovskii, Konstantin Eduardovich
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Germany
United States
East Germany
Americas
Southern states (U.S.)
Brandenburg, Germany
Institutions
Peenemünde (Germany)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum (Brandenbuerg State Archaeology Museum)
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