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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

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Jewish people who were prisoners in German Nazi camps were forced to march. The marches were known as Death Marches because for most of the Jewish people being in the camp was sure death.

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