It can be seen that even through they where treated harsher and even just kill in mass numbers it can not be seen as the “final phase” as there where still tens of thousands that survived the death marches. This death marches where not only perpetrated on the Jews but on all those seen as enemies and under the control of the Nazi regime. The death marches where more of a last ditch effort to consolidate and possibly prolong the war and if need be to use the Jews and other prisoners of war as a sort of a bargaining chip when the Nazi 's
It can be seen that even through they where treated harsher and even just kill in mass numbers it can not be seen as the “final phase” as there where still tens of thousands that survived the death marches. This death marches where not only perpetrated on the Jews but on all those seen as enemies and under the control of the Nazi regime. The death marches where more of a last ditch effort to consolidate and possibly prolong the war and if need be to use the Jews and other prisoners of war as a sort of a bargaining chip when the Nazi 's