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Ursprungligen postat av Oscar111
De som dog i slutskedet av kriget dog beroende på tyfus och den svält som orsakats av att Tysklands infrastruktur blivit sönderbombad. Detta drabbade även civila tyskar.
Det finns ingen som menar på att det förintades i slutskedet av kriget.
Du har aldrig hört talas om dödsmarscherna? Eller om de slutgiltiga upplösningen av arbetslägren i Generalguvermentet?
Vadå "ingen", vad vet du om vad folk menar och inte? Har du någon referens som sammanfattar att det inte skedde något folkmord i krigets slutskede? Slutet av kriget visade i och med dödsmarscherna att nazisterna absolut inte hade för avsikt att låta någon överleva.
Sen verkar du helt och hållet bortse från förintelsen av Ungerns judar som just ägde rum i slutet av kriget pga det skyddstatus som Ungrarna hade under hela kriget. Andra hälften av 1944 gick åt till att tömma Budapest på Judar och skicka dem till Chelmno och Auschwitz. Eller är det kanske Tyfus som var i farten?
Ett tips är Martin Gilberts Förintelseatlas för att få en överblick över dödsmarcherna.
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The death marches refer to the forcible movement in the winter of 1944-5 by Nazi Germany of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, from German concentration camps near the war front to camps inside Germany. Later the term "death march" was applied to similar events elsewhere.
Toward the end of World War II in 1944, as The United States, Britain, and Canada moved in on the concentration camps from the west, the Soviet Union was advancing from the east. The Germans decided to abandon the camps, moving or destroying evidence of the atrocities they had committed there.
Prisoners, already sick after months or years of violence and starvation, were marched for tens of miles in the snow to train stations; then transported for days at a time without food or shelter in freight trains with open carriages; and forced to march again at the other end to the new camp. Prisoners who lagged behind or fell were shot.
The largest and best known of the death marches took place in January 1945, when the Soviet army advanced on Poland. Nine days before the Soviets arrived at the death camp at Auschwitz, the Germans marched 60,000 prisoners out of the camp toward Wodzisław Śląski (German -Loslau), thirty-five miles away, where they were put on freight trains to other camps. Around 15,000 died on the way. [1]
The Germans killed large numbers of prisoners before, during, or after death marches. Seven hundred prisoners were killed during one ten-day march of 7,000 Jews, including 6,000 women, who were being moved from camps in the Gdansk region, which is bordered on the north by the Baltic Sea. Those still alive when the marchers reached the coast were forced into the sea and shot. [2]
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, was forced on a death march, along with his father, Shlomo, from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, which he describes in his 1958 novel Night.
Källa: USHMM & Wikipedia
