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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 • 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 Death Marches • 59 different marches from Nazi concentration camps during final winter of Nazi domination • Listen to a survivor tell about the death marches Death Marches Death Marches 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 Soviets Enter Auschwitz • January 27, 1945, Soviet forces entered Auschwitz • Listen to Sam Itzkowitz story of liberation from Auschwitz British liberate Bergen-Belsen • April 15, 1945- British liberate BergenBelsen – Had typhus epidemic – Conditions were horrific 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. British Liberate Bergen-Belsen British Liberate Bergen-Belsen Americans Liberate Buchenwald • April 11, 1945- Americans liberate Buchenwald Eisenhower Inspecting Ohrdruf Americans Liberate Buchenwald Americans Liberate Dachau • April 29, 1945, Americans liberate Dachau Americans Liberate Dachau Americans Liberate Dachau Americans Liberate Dachau 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