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Nazi Death Marches Analysis

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Starting in the summer of 1944 the Nazi were getting defeated and the war was almost over. When they realized that they would lose they wanted to get rid of all evidence of crimes, even the survivors. Nazi’s would burn the bodies of dead people and try to get rid of the camps but, there was still survivors who could tell people what they had happen to them so the Nazi’s walked them on death marches in worse conditions than in the camp. Over 250,000 people died on the marches but some lived to tell what happened and here is one of their stories. Gerda Weissmann Klein is a Polish-born, now American woman who went on one of these death marches. She was first put in a forced labor camp when she was a teen and before she was her father told her

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