Company Dora
The company Dora was a German commando operations in Africa during the Second World War . A special command of the special unit of the Brandenburgers launched in June 1942 advanced from the Libyan capital Tripoli around 4000 km across the Sahara desert to Lake Chad in central Africa . The aim was, on the one hand, to explore the hostile situation there in the French colonial area of Equatorial Africa , but also tactical operations against the Allied supply route, which ran from the Gulf of Guinea via the Central African region of Chad to Port Sudan in the British colony of Sudan , be performed. The Sonderkommando proceeded in three separate command units, starting from the Tassili Plateau in southwest Libya to the Tibesti Mountains and the Ghat oasis . The logistical organization took over the ethnologist Hans Rhotert . As a result of this undertaking it was stated that an effective interruption of the Allied supply route would require a higher level of force. In addition, an accompanying unit from Abwehr Department I carried out a military geological and cartographic exploration mission in southern Libya. The company has been extensively documented. Photographs and documents on the special company Dora are in the German Federal Archives .
literature
- Franz Kurowski : German commandos 1939–1945: »Brandenburger« and defense in worldwide use. 2nd edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-02018-1 , pp. 136ff.
- Nikolaus Benjamin Richter: Unforgettable Sahara , FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1951