death marches from the Dachau camps to the Alps during the final days of World War II in Europe
TitelThe death marches from the Dachau camps to the Alps during the final days of World War II in Europe
Forfatter
Call numberS940.5318/010
Objektnummer08555m
UdgivelsesstedHaifa, Israel
Udgivelsesår
2011
Målpp129-160
MaterialeArticle
NoterArticle from the journal 'Dapim Studies on the Shoah' Vol.25 pp129-160
Beskrivelse
During the second half of April 1945, thousands of inmates were removed from Dachau concentration camp and its satellite camps and forced to march to the high Alps of the Tyrol. Several possible explanations for this have been raised, but Bauer concludes that the death marches were simply meant to carry on the mass murder of the camp inmates by other means