We should remember that our space program started in the slave
labor camp Dora during WWII. At the end of the war we spirited
away the German scientists and rockets to the US to begin our
space program. Dora and the V-2 Slave labor in the space age
"Welcome! This website provides information for an exhibit at
the UAHuntsville Salmon Library from February 21-March 12, 2010
entitled Dora and the V–2: Slave Labor in the Space Age. Both
the site and the exhibit explore the history of forced labor in
the construction of the V–2 missiles at the Dora concentration
camp and Mittelwerk underground factory near Nordhausen,
Germany, during World War II. "The stories center on the victims
of Dora, the prisoners from many nations who were forced to work
in the camp and its sub-camps and in the underground factory
assembling the V–2. Usually, especially in Huntsville, Alabama,
the V–2 is remembered through the engineers who designed it,
rather than the forced laborers who put it together. Yet the
prisoners died by the scor