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The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide (repost)

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The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide (repost)

Daniel Blatman, "The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide"
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | ISBN 10: 0674050495 | 2010 | PDF | 592 pages | 1.5 MB

From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian towns and villages. Even in the bloody annals of the Nazi regime, this final death blow was unique in character and scope.