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
Verfasser
Call numberS940.5318/010
Inventarnummer08555m
ErscheinungsortHaifa, Israel
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
Formatpp129-160
MaterialArtikel
NotesArticle from the journal 'Dapim Studies on the Shoah' Vol.25 pp129-160
Beschreibung
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