“For a time the mass of prisoners who were dragged unwillingly into this historical adventure were ignored. Only gradually did the writers of these more or less scientific works realize that Dora, once a mere Kommando under the authority of Buchenwald, had in fact become one of the most dreaded concentration camps in Nazi Germany.”
–André Sellier, A History of the Dora Camp
“Dora, with its romantic, feminine name, was never a camp like the others. A Nazi war criminal [Dr. Edwin Katzenellenbogen] was to call it ‘the Hell of all the concentration camps’.”
–Jean Michael, Dora
(Yves Béon called it a festering carbuncle on the asshole of hell.)