If the marches did not kill them, then the soldiers would line them up on their knees in front of a ditch, and shoot them. Later, just a ditch full of bodies were left.
Poor conditions for captured soldiers
There were many Death Marches during World War II and the Holocaust. The first were observed during 1942 and the last marches in 1945.
Death marches were so tragic because lots of people died.
58,000 men and woman were forced onto death marches.
Not really, there was no need. People would simply run away.
The Death Marches took place between 1944 and 1945. Prisoners were forced to march for tens of miles in the snow to travel from camp to camp. No one really knows ho many people survived these marches but what is known is that around 250,000 Jews died during the marches.
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Death marches were the marching of inmates from one concentration camp to another.
there were two main reasons: the marches occurred because the camps from which they started were under threat of liberation, so the inmates were marched to another camp the marches were a way of killing the participants, some marches did not even reach their destination, they would just keep marching until all of the charges died or the guards deserted
they were forced to walk 200 miles to boot camp without drink or food and they didn't get rest and if you fell they killed you and left you there to rot
1 hour to a couple days, some were 8 miles, some were 80 __________________ Death marches were generally hundreds or thousands of miles, the aim was to march people until they died.
because there was nothing else to do with them, apart from killing or releasing them.