The Death Marches refers to what happened to all of the prisoners in the Holocaust. When the war started to end, the German army started to collapse. It ended up forcing the germans to move the prisoners out of concentration camps. They moved them closer to the front so they can be used as forced labour camps inside of germany. The prisoners were first taken by train and then by foot, they were later called “Death marches”. In this Dark time, it was in the middle of the winter and prisoners were forced to walk in the bitter cold with almost no food, water, or rest. For the other people who were falling behind or couldn't keep up, they were shot and killed.
During a time of where the soviets were about to arrive at Auschwitz, german soldiers were again forced to move the prisoners into a small town about thirty-five miles away. On the way to another camp site in a train, more than 1 fourth of people died along the way. …show more content…
There were different camps they either went during the Holocaust, Concentration camps and Execution camps. Concentration camps often used people from who walked in the Death marches work like slaves until dying of starvation, getting tortured to death (That's often the scenario), or dying of working to hard. Unburied bodies would be piling up in the walls of the concentration camp, in 1945 British troops once found 600,000 starving survivors and unburied bodies in a Concentration camp. Execution camps were of course for people to slowly die in, there were six of them and they would be in a room filled up with gas chambers that will make a person slowly suffocate and die. Around 2.7 millions jews died to it in 1942 alone. In death marches they would often kill people by leading them into the water, and then shooting them, just plain out shooting them, or make them starve and exhaust them to
During a time of where the soviets were about to arrive at Auschwitz, german soldiers were again forced to move the prisoners into a small town about thirty-five miles away. On the way to another camp site in a train, more than 1 fourth of people died along the way. …show more content…
There were different camps they either went during the Holocaust, Concentration camps and Execution camps. Concentration camps often used people from who walked in the Death marches work like slaves until dying of starvation, getting tortured to death (That's often the scenario), or dying of working to hard. Unburied bodies would be piling up in the walls of the concentration camp, in 1945 British troops once found 600,000 starving survivors and unburied bodies in a Concentration camp. Execution camps were of course for people to slowly die in, there were six of them and they would be in a room filled up with gas chambers that will make a person slowly suffocate and die. Around 2.7 millions jews died to it in 1942 alone. In death marches they would often kill people by leading them into the water, and then shooting them, just plain out shooting them, or make them starve and exhaust them to