Commemorating Hell: The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

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Index Adler, Hermann, 129–30, 180n26 Adler, Martin, 129–32 American occupation: Congressional visit, 69–70; fraternization, 66; intelligence activities, 70–71; of Nordhausen, 51–58, 61–65 anthropology, x Antifa: Antifascist Resistance Committee, 95; Council, 78–79, 82, 86; definition of, 78 Appellplatz, 11, 25, 55, 88, 105, 145 Auschwitz: arrival of prisoners in Dora, 11, 28, 35, 45, 85, 130–31; experiences in, 6, 122 Bartel, Walter, 102, 132 Beón, Yves, 126, 165 Bettelheim, Bruno, 8, 129n19 Birnbaum, Dora, 82 Bischoff, Helmut, 103–4 Boelcke, Kaserne, 34, 37, 43, 53, 65, 79, 90 Bornemann, Martin, 102 Boudinot, Brig. Gen. Truman E., 64 Brecht, Berthold, 137, 180n1 Brinkmann, Otto 91 Buchenwald: Buchenwald-Mittelbau-Dora Foundation, 132, 141–42, 148; ceremonies, 85; construction of, 2; as national memorial , 95–96, 102, 105; prisoner hierarchy, 8, 31,133; transfer of prisoners from, 23, 25; 157 Busta, Erwin, 104–5 Casablanca Conference, 41 Center for Political Education (Zentrale für Politische Bildung), 125, 132–33, 146, 179n23 Cespiva, Jan, 31, 107 Chalonpka, Jan, 107 Churchill, Winston, 41–43, 60 Cold War, 91, 94–97 Communist Party and members: as Dora prisoners and survivors, 65–66, 105; meetings, 77, 105, 133; in opposition to Hitler, 4–5, 7, 106–7; among staff, 101 concentration camps: Bergen-Belsen, 34, 37, 55, 82, 130; Birkenau, 35; Columbia Haus, 4; congressional visit to, 69–70; Dachau, 4, 14, 25, 90; definition and organization , 3–17; Esterwegen, 4; Flossenburg, 15, 25; Gross Rosen, 35, 45; Karlshagen, 23; Lichtenburg, 4, 11; Mauthausen, 14, 15; Mohringen, 4; Oranienburg/Sachsenhausen , 4, 14; Ohrdruf, 90; Ravensbrück, 4, 8, 15, 85; Stutthof, 14; Trassenheide, 24; “Wild Concentration Camps,” 3, 4 death marches and evacuation, 48–51, 130 death through work (Vernichtung durch Arbeit), 14, 36, 55 Degenkolb, Gerhard, 26 Detmers, Heinrich, 91 Dirksen, Everett M., 70 displaced persons. See refugees 196 Index Dönitz, Admiral Karl, 60 Dornberger, Walter, 22, 24, 72 Doyle, Edward F., 46 Dulles, Allen, 104 Dulles, John Foster, 104 “education” (Erziehung), 8–10, 14, 16 Eggarath, Werner, 85, 93 Eicke, Theodor, 6, 7 Eisenhower, Dwight, 62, 68–69, 72, 152, 174n51 Ellrich, 34, 91, 117 Erziehung. See “education” European Committee (Comite Européen Dora, Ellrich, Harzungen), 126, 153 expulsion of Germans, 59, 62, 77, 96 extermination through work. See death through work Federal Republic of Germany (FRG): contact with, 116, 121; difference in outlook from GDR, 125, 135; Historians’ Argument (Historikerstreit), 138; normalization, 137–38; out-migration, to 96 Ferenz, Benjamin, 34 Flagmeyer, Otto, 64–65 Förschner, Otto, 26 Frankl, Viktor, 6 Free German Youth (Freie Deutsche Jugend ), 100, 112 Fûcik, Julius, 110 Gardelegen, 48–51, 144 Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora: changes in grounds and exhibits, 95, 115, 121, 125, 147–56 ; definition of, ix, 1; founding of Mahn- und Gedenkstätte, 95, 98; pedagogy , 145–47; Roma, 127; stakeholders, 39, 131, 163–66; work culture, 110–13, 116, 118, 121 Geertz, Clifford, x, n1 Geissner, Fritz, 89, 95, 101–2 German Democratic Republic (GDR): comparisons with the Federal Republic of Germany, 125, 153–56, 158, 161; discrediting of, 134–36, 141, 150, 155–56; economics of, 111, 116; end of, 121–22; founding of, 94; GDR Gedenkstätte, 98–100; 153–56; mainstream opinion 154; reprisals, 95–97 Göring, Hermann, 6 Gottmann, Günther, 139 Grotewohl, Otto, 95 Gysi, Gregor, 122 Hagen, Hans, 72, 156–58 Hagen, Ilse Kirchhoff, 53–55, 156–57 Hanewacker Camp, 82 Hein, Wincenty, 37, 102 Hermann, Kurt, 156–58 Hettlage, Karl Maria, 26 Himmler, Hans, 87, 89, 95 Himmler, Heinrich, 6, 7, 16, 26, 32 Historical Commission, 124 Hitler, Adolf: annexation of land, 13; call for concentration camps, 3–4; call for total war, 149; death, 60; and the economy, 15, 24–25; and his staff, 6, 23; and Jewish policy, 15 Hunt, Linda, 126 I.G. Farben Company, 19 Jaeger, Joachim, 118 Jewish populations: actions against, 16; and Communists, 4; at Gardelegen, 50; in GDR exhibits, 109; “Judenfrei” Germany, 35, 86; in Nordhausen, 43, 55, 66–67, 89, 128; 1938 pogrom, 13–14, 106 Jodl, Field Marshall Alfred, 60 Jugendweihe, 25 Kammler, Hans, 26, 72 Kapo, 8, 13, 32, 45, 48, 90 Karl Duisberg Gesellschaft, 132 Kaul, Karl, 104–5 Kirchhoff, Ilse. See Hagen, Ilse Kirchhoff Klose, Cornelia: director of Nordhausen culture office, 141–42, 160; director of Gedenkstätte, 122–24, 127, 137, 150 Knigge, Volkhard, 142 Kohl, Helmut, 137 Köhler, Christa, 113, 118 Köhler, Wolfgang, 111, 113, 117, 124 Kohnstein, 2, 19...