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Death marches during the Holocaust

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Jewish prisoners from the outer Dachau camps were marched to Dachau, and then 70 miles south. Many of the Jewish marchers weighed less than 80 pounds. Shivering in their tattered striped uniforms, the "skeletons" marched 10 to 15 hours a day, passing more than a dozen Bavarian towns. If they stopped
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Although most of the prisoners were already very weak or ill after enduring the routine violence, overwork, and starvation of concentration camp or prison camp life, they were marched for kilometres in the snow to railway stations, then transported for days without food, water, or shelter in freight
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were being cleared out by the Nazis ahead of the advancing Allied troops, and some 15,000 prisoners were first marched to the Dachau camp, only to be sent southwards on a death march towards the Austrian border, the path for which generally headed southwards, partly along the eastern shore of the
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tried to help the marching prisoners. Some of the prisoners themselves managed to escape the death marches to freedom. At least 3,000 prisoners died on the Gleiwitz route alone. Approximately 9,000-15,000 prisoners in total died on death marches out of Auschwitz's camps, and those who did survive
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The SS killed large numbers of prisoners by starvation before the marches and shot many more dead both during and after for not being able to keep pace. Seven hundred prisoners were killed during one ten-day march of 7,000 Jews, including 6,000 women, who were being moved from camps in the
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Prisoners were marched to train stations, often a long way; transported for days at a time without food in freight trains; then forced to march again to a new camp. Those who lagged behind or fell were shot. The largest death march took place in January 1945. Nine days before the Soviet
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In late April 1945, the remaining prisoners were removed from Stutthof by sea, since it was completely encircled by Soviet forces. Again, hundreds of prisoners were forced into the sea and shot. Over 4,000 were sent by small boat to Germany, some to the
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On 17 January 1945, when Russian troops were approaching the Auschwitz concentration camp, prisoners were sent on a march to Dachau concentration camp. The ten day journey was on foot and by cattle car: many prisoners were killed along the way.
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carriages originally designed for cattle. On arrival at their destination, they were then forced to march again to new camps. Prisoners who were unable to keep up due to fatigue or illness were usually executed by gunshot. The evacuation of
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of the Dachau main camp's "system". They and the other American troops did what they could to save those left alive, for at least two days before dedicated medical personnel could take over. A memorial to the rescue by the 522nd exists at
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camp system in northern Poland began in January 1945. About 5,000 prisoners from Stutthof subcamps were marched to the Baltic Sea coast, forced into the water, and machine gunned. The rest of the prisoners were marched in the direction of
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in eastern Germany. They were cut off by the advancing Soviet forces. The Germans forced the surviving prisoners back to Stutthof. Marching in severe winter conditions and treated brutally by SS guards, thousands died during the march.
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on death march to the north, to prevent leaving live witnesses in the camp when the Soviet Red Army would arrive, as was likely to happen soon. The survivors of this march were liberated on 30 April 1945, by a Soviet scout unit.
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were driven in a 60-kilometre (37 mi) death march to Hrubieszow. Those who could not continue on the way were shot by the SS guards. All death march survivors were deported along with about 3,000 Jews from Hrubieszow to
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By the second of May 1945, only some of the 6,000 prisoners sent on the death march were still alive; those in failing health had been shot as they fell. On that day, as the eastwards-marching prisoners had passed through
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divisions abandoned the concentration camps, moving or destroying evidence of the atrocities they had committed. Thousands of prisoners were killed in the camps before the marches commenced. These executions were deemed
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had received numerous prisoners moved from camps further east in territory lost to the Soviets, and camp authorities began to close the outlying camps of Buchenwald (such as those in
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near Hamburg, and some to camps along the Baltic coast. Many drowned along the way. Shortly before the German surrender, some prisoners were transferred to
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German civilians, under direction of U.S. medical officers, walk past a group of 30 Jewish women starved to death (Volary, Czechoslovakia) 1945
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The largest and the most notorious of the death marches took place in mid-January 1945. On January 12, the Soviet army began its
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and reaching near enough such that artillery fire could be heard from the camps. By January 17, orders were given to vacate the
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to other locations, which involved walking long distances resulting in numerous deaths of weakened people. Most
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inmates on a death march, photographed on 28 April 1945 by Benno Gantner from his balcony in
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were then put on freight trains and shipped to other camps deeper in German held territory.
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Earlier marches of prisoners, also known as "death marches", include those in 1939 in the
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II in 1945, Nazi Germany had evacuated an estimated 10 to 15 million people, mostly from
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region. Those still alive when the marchers reached the coast were forced into the
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or fell behind, the SS guards shot them and left their corpses along the road.
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Kierunek Loslau. Marsz ewakuacyjny więźniów oświęcimskich w styczniu 1945 roku
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Victims of a death march (via train) from Buchenwald to Dachau, 29 April 1945
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Jewish doctors and the Holocaust : the anatomy of survival in Auschwitz
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Death Marches of Prisoners Map (from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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German evacuation from East-Central Europe near the end of World War II
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In January 1940, the Germans deported a group of prisoners from the
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Die Vertreibung im deutschen Erinnern. Legenden, Mythos, Geschichte
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Memorial to the Death March Victims: Chelm and Hrubieszow, Poland
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
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Ravensbrück concentration camp § Death march and liberation
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USHMM Photos page of Waakirchen and 522nd FA BN Nisei soldiers
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In late March 1945, the SS sent 24,500 women prisoners from
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advanced from the East, trapped in the middle, the German
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Memorial plaque to the victims of the death march in Jena
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On April 24, 1945, the satellite labor camps around
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Buchenwald to Dachau, Flossenbürg and Theresienstadt
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The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
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Index

Death marches (Holocaust)

Dachau concentration camp
Percha
Wolfratshausen
the Holocaust
Nazi camp
death marches
World War II
Eastern Front
Allied forces
prisoners' slave labour
crimes against humanity
Red Army
Auschwitz concentration camp
Wodzisław
Lublin Reservation
Reichskommissariat Ukraine
German evacuation from East-Central Europe near the end of World War II
East Prussia
Eastern
Central Europe
Red Army
SS
crimes against humanity
Nuremberg trials
Majdanek
Kaiserwald
Stutthof
Mittelbau-Dora

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