THE DEATH MARCHES
THE DEATH MARCHES
After having defeated the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, many times, the Soviet Red Army decisively broke the German lines in early January 1945. Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the evacuation of Auschwitz and its 44 subordinate camps and the destruction of evidence of the crimes committed there. The prisoners who were still able to walk, about 60,000, were forced to march without proper shoes and clothe s for the winter and without food to several collection points located in two railway hubs sixty kilometers away.
From there they were transported on board open wagons to various concentration camps in the Reich: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, etc. The number of prisoners who left Auschwitz on January 17, 1945, and were killed by inclement weather and exhaustion or shot by the SS could be as high as 15,000. Those prisoners who survived that death march will know other ones in the months that followed, as the SS tried to prevent their liberation by the Allied armies
THE DEATH MARCHES
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