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holocaust death march
whats a death march? [in the times of the holocaust]
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The death march are (like the other person said) when the Germans would make the Jews/gypsies/disabled/anyone they said wasn't worthy march miles and miles to the concentration camp. Many died along the road. Death marches have been happening throughout time. We, Americans are responsable for putting Native Americans through a particularly grisly one.
Basically, this is the story. Hitler wanted to be the ruler of the world, except Germany wasn't a very rich country. The Jews, however, had a lot of money. Hitler decided to bash the Jews and convince the rest of the Germans that the Jews were bad. Once Hitler got all of the people to back him, he began making laws that the Jews couldn't have property. This meant that all of their property went to the German government. Hitler used this money to fight his war to become world leader. The Jews were all gathered up and forced into concentration camps. In the concentration camps, they were experimented on. It is very sad and disgusting, but they would experiment on twins, like hurting one to see what effect it had on the other. They would make Jews stand outside in the freezing cold without clothes to see what happens when a person goes through hypothermia. These poor people were abused and treated so badly. Many of them, when they were too weak to work, or just because, would be sent to gas chambers, where they would all be locked into a big room and poisoned together. Once they were dead, the Germans would even take their gold teeth and use their skin to make lamp shades. This whole atrocity went on and on until America finally got into the action and put a stop to things. When the war was over the American troops went to the concentration camps to let the Jews go, and they were horrified by what they found. There were dead people piled up in big holes, there were people who were starving to death. Sometimes, when you happen to come across an image of this, it can haunt you for a long time. There was a movie in the 70's or 80's called "Holocaust" that explains a lot of what happened, but if you are young I suggest you watch it with an adult who can explain things to you if it comes to a part you don't get. I think it is really important for you to know about history, especially something like this because it really wasn't all that long ago, and if you know what happened it is one step more to making sure something like that never happens again.
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it was when they would take the jews to this hella far up a like mouain i guess you could say..
and the week people wouldnt be strong enough to make it up and they would drop dead as the were marching,....therefore death march
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