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One of the few extant Nazi documents referring to the Death Marches is an SS report from March 13, 1945 on the arrival in the Leitmeritz (Litomierzyce) camp in Bohemia of 58 prisoners evacuated from the Auschwitz sub-camp of Hubertushütte, mentioned above.
The escape of the SS and the final victims. The almost 9 thousand prisoners left behind in the Main Camp (Stammlager), Birkenau, and the sub-camps as unfit to join the evacuation march found themselves in an uncertain situation. The majority of them were sick or suffering from exhaustion.
In January 1945, the Third Reich stood on the verge of military defeat. As Allied forces approached Nazi camps, the SS organized “death marches” (forced evacuations) of concentration camp inmates, in part to keep large numbers of concentration camp prisoners from falling into Allied hands.
In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps. SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system.
Auschwitz was a large complex of camps in and around O ś wi ę cim and Brzezinka, Poland. From 1942 to 1944, gassings took place in the best known of the three main sites, Birkenau. During this time, over 1.1 million people, mainly European Jews, were killed in the gas chambers, shootings, hangings, and from starvation, disease, and exhaustion.
Jan 24, 2020 · As the Red Army marched closer and closer, the SS decided it was time to evacuate. They planned what prisoners thought of as death marches—lengthy, forced journeys from Auschwitz toward other...
Aug 2, 2016 · Why did the Nazis decide to evacuate the camps in the east and move prisoners west to camps inside Germany? What conditions made these evacuations especially brutal? How does Miklós Radnóti’s poem add to your understanding of this history?
