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The Death Marches and the Liberators

The Death Marches and the Liberators. Death Marches. Winter of 1944/45, Germans knew war was lost Tried to evacuate the death camps Wanted to conceal the evidence Prisoners were forced to march towards Germany in the dead of winter. Death Marches.

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The Death Marches and the Liberators

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  1. The Death Marches and the Liberators

  2. Death Marches • Winter of 1944/45, Germans knew war was lost • Tried to evacuate the death camps • Wanted to conceal the evidence • Prisoners were forced to march towards Germany in the dead of winter

  3. Death Marches • Jan. 1945, just hours before the Red army arrives at Auschwitz, prisoners were marched to Wodzislaw • Anyone who lagged behind was shot • Many shot for no reason

  4. Death Marches • 59 different marches from Nazi concentration camps during final winter of Nazi domination • Listen to a survivor tell about the death marches

  5. Death Marches

  6. Death Marches

  7. Liberation • Soviet soldiers were first to enter a concentration camp • Majdanek • SS tried to hide the evidence • Soldiers shocked by what they saw • Press coverage was intense • Was dismissed as Communist propaganda

  8. Soviets Enter Auschwitz • January 27, 1945, Soviet forces entered Auschwitz • Listen to Sam Itzkowitz story of liberation from Auschwitz

  9. British liberate Bergen-Belsen • April 15, 1945- British liberate Bergen-Belsen • Had typhus epidemic • Conditions were horrific

  10. British liberate Bergen-Belsen • Camp had to be burned • German citizens brought in to tour the camp • The films the British took were broadcast throughout the world.

  11. British Liberate Bergen-Belsen

  12. British Liberate Bergen-Belsen

  13. Americans Liberate Buchenwald • April 11, 1945- Americans liberate Buchenwald

  14. Eisenhower Inspecting Ohrdruf

  15. Americans Liberate Buchenwald

  16. Americans Liberate Dachau • April 29, 1945, Americans liberate Dachau

  17. Americans Liberate Dachau

  18. Americans Liberate Dachau

  19. Americans Liberate Dachau

  20. Last Camps Liberated • The last camps encountered by the Americans were Mauthausen and Gusen on May 5, 1945. • 3 days later, the war was over • Army begins the intense battle to bring the survivors back to life

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