The Death Marches During World War II
The Death Marches
The Death marches that were held in Germany played a conspicuous role in World War II, Nazi Generals forced millions of innocent people to march when ever and wherever without any sacrifices, the marches killed a quarter of a million people at the end of the war in a time span of 10 months; the objective was to weaken or kill all prisoners before they entered a camp. The captives were treated awful when marching constantly. The Nazi Germans saw the prisoners as a way to win the war; Yet, the mass murders that had been connected to the concentration camps was kept a secret from the rest of the world so that everybody just saw Germany as a superpower for their very inconceivable strength. The Death Marchers during WWII were …show more content…
Nazi Generals forced their prisoners to march while have been starving. The Death Marches that were held in Germany killed thousands of people; Jews, Filipinos, and also Americans were obtained to march around 60 or more miles a day non stop. The concentration camps were first found by the Soviet Union before the Death Marches; Therefore the allies had their eyes on Germany so they could try to salvage the lives of the Jewish. In due course, the worst that could happen to Germany happened, other countries finally found out about how the Nazi’s treated the Jews; the first people to witness the camps were the Soviet Union’s army, their army marched into the Majdanek concentration camp 11 days after it was abandoned by the Germans, the camp was filled with diseases and few Holocaust survivors. The Soviet Union put three million of Germany’s prisoners into camps in Siberia and Russia after they found out about camps. “It took two weeks. There were 600 of us when we started, but only 60 survived,” says Holocaust survivor, Jack Aizenberg, “If you could not walk you were shot, if you fell down you were shot, you either dropped dead or were
The Death marches that were held in Germany played a conspicuous role in World War II, Nazi Generals forced millions of innocent people to march when ever and wherever without any sacrifices, the marches killed a quarter of a million people at the end of the war in a time span of 10 months; the objective was to weaken or kill all prisoners before they entered a camp. The captives were treated awful when marching constantly. The Nazi Germans saw the prisoners as a way to win the war; Yet, the mass murders that had been connected to the concentration camps was kept a secret from the rest of the world so that everybody just saw Germany as a superpower for their very inconceivable strength. The Death Marchers during WWII were …show more content…
Nazi Generals forced their prisoners to march while have been starving. The Death Marches that were held in Germany killed thousands of people; Jews, Filipinos, and also Americans were obtained to march around 60 or more miles a day non stop. The concentration camps were first found by the Soviet Union before the Death Marches; Therefore the allies had their eyes on Germany so they could try to salvage the lives of the Jewish. In due course, the worst that could happen to Germany happened, other countries finally found out about how the Nazi’s treated the Jews; the first people to witness the camps were the Soviet Union’s army, their army marched into the Majdanek concentration camp 11 days after it was abandoned by the Germans, the camp was filled with diseases and few Holocaust survivors. The Soviet Union put three million of Germany’s prisoners into camps in Siberia and Russia after they found out about camps. “It took two weeks. There were 600 of us when we started, but only 60 survived,” says Holocaust survivor, Jack Aizenberg, “If you could not walk you were shot, if you fell down you were shot, you either dropped dead or were