Why didn't they mow us down right away? The death march experience in survivor's testimonies and memoirs

The author's account of the death marches in 1945 show the value of postwar testimony, without which we would know little to nothing of these episodes, which altogether comprise the final phase of the Holocaust itself. Blatman discusses what evacuated Jews themselves understood, namely, the marches meant an end to the terrible, but at least knowable routines of Auschwitz.