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RE: Death Marches
Posted by: charleyb
When: 11/18/2003 12:32:00 PM
The prisoners were forced to walk long "death marches" with barely any food or water. "The largest death marches took place in the winter of 1944-1945, when the Soviet army began its liberation of Poland. Nine days before the Soviets arrived at Auschwitz, the Germans marched 60,000 prisoners out of the camp toward Wodzislaw, a town thirty-five miles away, where they were put on freight trains to other camps. About one in four died on the way."(http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/dmarch.htm). I could not even imagine walking 35 miles in the winter and watching people dying all around me. The germans were also very mean to the prisnoers and would even kill some of them for no reason. The germans even killed women and children just for the fun of it. In response to: Research and report on death marches.
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