MITTELBAU-DORA CONCENTRATION CAMP 1943–1945 – Companion Volume to the Permanent Exhibition at Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial

Häftad bok. Wallstein. 2007. 202 sidor.

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"One of the chief aims of the exhibition is to draw attention to the extensive interrelationships between the camps and their social surroundings, and thus contribute to the critical examination of the themes of perpetration and the responsibility borne by accomplices and spectators. One important question here is what motivated construction companies and armament industrialists but also small-time tradesmen to exploit concentration camp inmates as forced labourers. Yet the exhibition also scrutinizes the responsibility borne by technicians, engineers and managers who had concentration camp inmates assemble V2 rockets in the Mittelwerk factory – and thus triggers discussion about the ethics of science and technology.
• The German defeat, which had been looming since Stalingrad, if not before, forms the narrower historical context of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp. It is here that the exhibition has its point of departure with regard to content and design alike. Upon entering the exhibition, the visitor encounters photos of Stalingrad in ruins and the speech by propaganda minister Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast (“Do You Want the Total War?”), as well as relics recovered from the Kohnstein tunnels. This rubble and rocket scrap paint a picture of Dora as a battlefield of the Total War, while at the same time spanning the gap between the year 1943 and the present. The main focus here is the question as to why National Socialist Germany did not end the war in 1943, but headed toward total defeat by waging the Total War, escalating its repression and extermination policies to a final extreme in the process.
• The central focus of the exhibition is on forced labour in the concentration camps and thus on those who suffered from this practice and died as a result of it: the inmates. The chief exhibition object here is a mine car salvaged from the tunnel – a kind of oversize wagon with which inmates were compelled to convey the rock and rubble of the tunnel-driving process out of the mountain’s interior by means of toilsome and debilitating labour. The mine car is representative of the two chief themes of Mittelbau-Dora – the history of forced labour in the concentration camps and the attempt to relocate factories to underground locations during the second half of the war.
• One of the chief questions raised here concerns the motivations of the perpetrators, accomplices and spectators of the crimes. The exhibition undertakes a nuanced depiction of the perpetrators and their accomplices within the camp environment, and endeavours to show how their motives lay in a blend of social and ideological structures still potent today to a certain extent. …"

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