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During World War II, death marches of POWs occurred in both German-occupied Europe and the Japanese colonial empire. Death marches of those held in Nazi concentration camps were common in the later stages of the Holocaust as Allied forces closed in on the camps. One infamous death march occurred in January 1945, as the Soviet Red Army advanced ...
The Ford Hunger March, sometimes called the Ford Massacre, was a demonstration on March 7, 1932 in the United States by unemployed auto workers in Detroit, Michigan, which took place during the height of the Great Depression. The march started in Detroit and ended in Dearborn, Michigan, in a confrontation in which four workers were shot to ...
Hunger marches became much more prominent in the 1920s and 1930s during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom. [1] During the widespread Great Depression of the 1930s, hunger marches also occurred in Canada and other countries. Many of the UK hunger marches were supported by the British wing of the Communist party.
[28] [37] During the Allied administration of Libya prior to independence, the United Nations estimated that 250,000 to 300,000 Libyan natives died under the Italians between 1912 and 1942 from all non-natural causes (e.g. combat, execution, disease, famine, and thirst). [15] [38] Ali Abdullatif Ahmida suggests this figure is higher, at 500,000 ...
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, [1] [note 1] was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923, during the period of the Weimar Republic.
Pages in category "Death marches" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Million Women March When: Oct. 25, 1997 Why: Anywhere from 500,000 to 2.1 million women gathered in Philadelphia to draw attention to issues facing women in the black community.
Altona Bloody Sunday (German: Altonaer Blutsonntag) is the name given to the events of 17 July 1932 when a recruitment march by the Nazi SA led to violent clashes between the police, the SA and supporters of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Altona, which at the time belonged to the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein but is now part of Hamburg.