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they were called 'Death Marches'.

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What did they eat while on death marches?

The Nazis wouldn't feed their prisoners anything. After all, their sole intention was to kill them.


Why did the Nazis institute death marches as it became apparent they were losing the war?

The Nazis knew perfectly well that the rest of the world regarded their treatment of prisoners in concentration camps with utter abhorrence. They tried to cover up as far as possible and were keen to prevent prisoners surviving to tell how they had been treated.


Why was there liberation of concentration camps?

What kind of question is this? They were liberated because the Nazis were torturing and exterminating thousands of people every day. They liberated the camps because they were decent human beings.


What were death marches?

Where prisoners were forced to march toward a concentration camp or other prison type facility where they were to be executed. Anyone who fell behind or was not well enough to walk was executed on the spot, often being beaten to death. Those who made it to the prison camp were starved or given very minimal food rations then they were worked to death or executed.


What prompted the Nazis to order the death marches of 1945?

As the Soviet Union advanced through Eastern Europe and drove the Germans back in 1944 and 1945, many of the concentration camps were evacuated and the prisoners forced to march westward, in order to prevent their liberation by the invading Soviets. These are referred to as the death marches.


How did Nazis label the prisoners?

With jew stars


What were the Nazis methods of exterminations?

They used Gas Chambers, execution, death marches


Were the Nazis correct in the treatment of the Jewish prisoners?

yes


The Nazis said Jews were not citizens What was their new status after 1935?

they turned to prisoners for the nazis


What was the final solution and how did the Nazis create an efficient means to kill their prisoners?

The Nazis created and used the most efficient means to kill their prisoners by incinerating them. The Nazis had other final solutions such as starvation, beatings, rapes, and shootings.


What did the Nazis do to the prisoners of the camp?

The people who was fit to work was forced into labour working whiles most children was killed or experimented on ____________________ The Nazis were free to do almost whatever they wanted to the prisoners.


Why did the Nazis tattoo Jewish prisoners?

* It was permanent. * It was cheap. * It was degrading. * It helped the Nazis keep tabs on prisoners. Obviously, the tattooed numbers were only given to prisoners selected for work. Moreoever, it was used only at the Auschwitz group of camps.