As the Soviet Army approached the Auschwitz complex of camps, the SS tried to move the prisoners, on foot, westwards to Gross-Rosen. The prisoners were already weak from undernouishment and the forced march took place in the winter. Many died. (There were also death marches from other camps). Death marches is a name given to the forced movement of prisoners that resulted in high casualties along the route. Stalag IIB was evacuated and moved during the last days of the war(similiar to conditions described above). The most famous one was the transfer of the US Army prisoners captured in the Phillippines soon after the US entered the war. After their capture on the pennisular of Bataan, the Japanese marched them north to prison camps without enough food and supplies for them. Many died along the route but many others who could not keep up with the pace were shot or bayonetted. This became known as the Bataan Death March.
Death marches(evacuations) were done for three main purposes:
#1. The S.S. officers did not want the prisoners to remain alive so that they can tell their stories of what they had to go through in these camps to the Allied Armies.
#2. The S.S. thought that prisoners needed to maintain the production of the armed equipments whenever it was needed.
#3. Some S.S. leaders thought that they can use Jewish prisoners as hostages to make an agreement to separate peace in the West that would help them go on with their Nazi regime.
-These prisoners had to be pushed deeper within Germany so that they can all die because the Nazis made it official that none of them can survive.
To keep the Jewish prisoners frightened. It was one of the many scare tactics used in the concentration/death camps.
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Death marches transported Jews from concentration camp to concentration camp as the Allies neared.
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
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.
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.
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.
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Death Marches
Death marches transported Jews from concentration camp to concentration camp as the Allies neared.
they were called 'Death Marches'.
you stupid head get a LIFE!!
January 1945
many ppl
A long time
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