death marches from the Dachau camps to the Alps during the final days of World War II in Europe
TitreThe death marches from the Dachau camps to the Alps during the final days of World War II in Europe
Auteur
Call numberS940.5318/010
N° d'objet08555m
Lieu de publicationHaifa, Israel
Année de publication
2011
Dimensionspp129-160
MatérielArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'Dapim Studies on the Shoah' Vol.25 pp129-160
Description
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