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The Auschwitz death marches: 80 years after the frozen hell
STEVE SILVER tells the horrifying story of the Nazis' last act of mass barbarity when they forced tens of thousands of prisoners in the camp to march into the snow at gunpoint to hide the evidence from the advancing Red Army
Soviet soldiers liberating Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27 1945
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THE death marches from Auschwitz-Birkenau were a final act of Nazi barbarism, born of desperation as the Soviet Red Army closed in. They began on January 17 1945 and stand out for their sheer scale and the horrific conditions endured by the prisoners.
The evacuation of the camps was part of the retreating Germans’ attempt to cover up their crimes, particularly the Holocaust: the systematic extermination of Europe’s Jews. They also wanted to retain the slave labour force for deployment at other concentration camps.
Background: the horror of Auschwitz
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