Buchenwald-Dora camp working group and commandos
The Buchenwald-Dora and Kommandos camp work group (LAG) is an association of German political prisoners from the Buchenwald , Dora concentration camps and their satellite camps founded in April 1945 .
history
The working group came into being after the concentration camp facility was removed in April 1945 by the US Army , which, together with the troops of the anti-Hitler coalition, liberated Germany from National Socialism . In the 1950s, the West German participants organized themselves as the "Buchenwald-Dora Camp Community" in the Federal Republic of Germany and the East Germans as the "Buchenwald-Dora State Working Group and Commands" in the GDR within the framework of the " Committees of anti-fascist resistance fighters ". Both communities remained friendly and were represented in the “ International Buchenwald-Dora and Commands ” committee. The GDR participants provided its 1st Vice President.
present
Their activities are determined by the oath that the liberated prisoners took on April 19, 1945 on the roll call square in Buchenwald.
Today, two former beech forest prisoners, their children, grandchildren and students of former prisoners work in the LAG. Membership is open to all German citizens if they stand up for their goals:
- the spread of the truth about the terror of the SS in the camps and the commitment of the anti-fascist prisoners to the life and survival of their fellow prisoners
- the presentation of the fact that despite inhuman camp conditions and despite the terror of the SS, solidarity , life-saving actions, human help and strengthening of the will to resist until the armed struggle against the tormentors were possible and practiced before the arrival of the US Army
- the preservation and maintenance of the anti-fascist character of today's "Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial" and the "Dora Concentration Camp Memorial"
- the effort to unite all anti-fascist and democratic forces in the fight against xenophobia , racism , anti-Semitism and nationalism
- the collection and preservation of oral, written and artistic testimonies from former concentration camp inmates for the future
- to organize help and support for former concentration camp prisoners, their survivors and relatives
- to maintain cooperation with other national and international anti-fascist organizations
collaboration
The association is a member of
- Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA)
- Fédération Internationale des Résistants (FIR)
Publications
- Koch, Heinz; Wohlfeld, Udo: The German Buchenwald Committee. The period from 1945 to 1958.
- Peter Hochmuth, Gerhard Hoffmann (ed.): Buchenwald, I can't forget you
- Albert Kuntz : "Dearest Ellen ..." Letters from Nazi imprisonment 1933 to 1944
- Hackett, David A. (ed.): The Buchenwald Report
- Horst Gobrecht : Hans Eiden . Before the sun laughs.
- Lettow, Fritz: Doctor in Hell.
- Zschocher, Gerhart: Signs from prison.
- Beech forest. A concentration camp. Library of Resistance.
- Willy Schmidt - anti-fascist and trade unionist
- Hoffmann, Gerhard: Lifelines, from the life of Anna and Walter Retterath
Web links
- Research project on texts by concentration camp survivors ( Memento from January 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (at the University of Salzburg )
- Harold Marcuse: The museum representation of the Holocaust in places of the former concentration camps in the Federal Republic, 1945-1990