Death Marches
Death Marches. Cold. Brutal. Dark. Long. Death marches were a forced march of prisoners from the war. The people walk for long days, even weeks. Prisoners were dropping from left to right during the marches. How could the Nazi’s do such a cold thing? A brutal journey through disease, torture, hunger, pain, malnutrition, and even death.
The prisoners were forced to march in long distances in the freezing cold, with barley any food or any water, with little rest. The Nazi group killed large groups of prisoners often before, after and even during the death marches. The SS forced almost about 7,000 prisoners on the death march from Dachau South to Tegernsee, just three days before the liberation. (“Death Marches” ushmm).
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The Nazi’s people did not make the death marches any better; they were given strict following orders to shoot and kill any prisoner who could not keep up or anyone who can no longer travel. The majority of the death marches lasted for days and went on for miles and miles away. These death marches did not just occur in Germany and Poland. One of the most well known death march happened in Japan at during Ward War II, the death march was called the Bataan Death March. The prisoners had to march 70 miles to the next close camp and if the prisoners didn’t follow orders or the prisoners did something the Japanese didn’t like, they were torture and then shot. The Death Marches left a huge changing impact on the world, and the death marches will always stand out in history not for the good things but for the actions that will forever burn and blow in our minds. The Nazis people can start out with 3,600 prisoners to start the march with and probably less than 2,000 prisoners will survived. (“The Death Marches” …show more content…
The Imperial Japanese Army group forcibly got prisoners thousands of Filipino POWs and Americans to the old US base, and killed up to almost 10,000 in the process. The Japanese will tie a man to a tree every day, and shoot him as an example to others if they tried something they did not like. One of the last death marches took place under the Nazi’s, it occurred in mid- January 1945. The Nazi’s always made the men go first, while they made the women and kids marched separately, with them wearing little clothes, simply nothing more than rugs. In most of the cases, prisoners were terribly forced to march while caring their Captor’s weapons and luggage. Arbeit Macht Frei,” the sign at the front entrance it said: “Work makes you free.” The SS officers killing more than 300 men shot a full packed train with prisoners from Auschwitz. Up to 15,000 people lost their lives. (“10 cruel Death Marches from modern history
Death Marches. Cold. Brutal. Dark. Long. Death marches were a forced march of prisoners from the war. The people walk for long days, even weeks. Prisoners were dropping from left to right during the marches. How could the Nazi’s do such a cold thing? A brutal journey through disease, torture, hunger, pain, malnutrition, and even death.
The prisoners were forced to march in long distances in the freezing cold, with barley any food or any water, with little rest. The Nazi group killed large groups of prisoners often before, after and even during the death marches. The SS forced almost about 7,000 prisoners on the death march from Dachau South to Tegernsee, just three days before the liberation. (“Death Marches” ushmm).
The prisoners …show more content…
The Nazi’s people did not make the death marches any better; they were given strict following orders to shoot and kill any prisoner who could not keep up or anyone who can no longer travel. The majority of the death marches lasted for days and went on for miles and miles away. These death marches did not just occur in Germany and Poland. One of the most well known death march happened in Japan at during Ward War II, the death march was called the Bataan Death March. The prisoners had to march 70 miles to the next close camp and if the prisoners didn’t follow orders or the prisoners did something the Japanese didn’t like, they were torture and then shot. The Death Marches left a huge changing impact on the world, and the death marches will always stand out in history not for the good things but for the actions that will forever burn and blow in our minds. The Nazis people can start out with 3,600 prisoners to start the march with and probably less than 2,000 prisoners will survived. (“The Death Marches” …show more content…
The Imperial Japanese Army group forcibly got prisoners thousands of Filipino POWs and Americans to the old US base, and killed up to almost 10,000 in the process. The Japanese will tie a man to a tree every day, and shoot him as an example to others if they tried something they did not like. One of the last death marches took place under the Nazi’s, it occurred in mid- January 1945. The Nazi’s always made the men go first, while they made the women and kids marched separately, with them wearing little clothes, simply nothing more than rugs. In most of the cases, prisoners were terribly forced to march while caring their Captor’s weapons and luggage. Arbeit Macht Frei,” the sign at the front entrance it said: “Work makes you free.” The SS officers killing more than 300 men shot a full packed train with prisoners from Auschwitz. Up to 15,000 people lost their lives. (“10 cruel Death Marches from modern history