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During the Holocaust, death marches (German: Todesmärsche) were massive forced transfers of prisoners from one Nazi camp to other locations, which involved walking long distances resulting in numerous deaths of weakened people. Most death marches took place toward the end of World War II, mostly after the summer/autumn of 1944.
The March (1945) A drawing of Australian POWs being marched through Germany during the winter of 1944-45. " The March " refers to a series of forced marches during the final stages of the Second World War in Europe. From a total of 257,000 western Allied prisoners of war held in German military prison camps, over 80,000 POWs were forced to ...
t. e. The Brno death march[1][2][3] (German: Brünner Todesmarsch) began late on the night of 30 May 1945 [1] when the ethnic German minority in Brno (German: Brünn [bʁʏn] ⓘ) was expelled to nearby Austria following the capture of the city by the Allies during World War II. Only about half of expellees actually crossed the border.
Dachau was the concentration camp that was in operation the longest, from March 1933 to April 1945, nearly all twelve years of the Nazi regime. Dachau's close proximity to Munich, where Hitler came to power and where the Nazi Party had its official headquarters, made Dachau a convenient location.
One infamous death march occurred in January 1945, as the Soviet Red Army advanced on German-occupied Poland. Nine days before the Red Army arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp , the Schutzstaffel marched nearly 60,000 prisoners out of the camp towards Wodzisław Śląski , where they were put on freight trains to other camps.
Coordinates: 50°13′59.876″N 11°41′59.996″E. As a Nazi concentration camp for forced labor, Helmbrechts concentration camp was a women's subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded near Helmbrechts near Hof, Germany in the summer of 1944. The first prisoners who came to the camp were political prisoners from the Ravensbrück ...
Sachsenhausen (German pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩]) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. [2][3] It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II.
In January 1945, after the Red Army launched the Vistula–Oder Offensive and approached the camp, almost 60,000 prisoners were forced to leave on a death march westward. [1] [3] Inmates were marched mostly to Loslau but also to Gleiwitz, [4] where they were forced into Holocaust trains and transported to concentration camps in Germany. [5]