As the Red Army marched closer and closer, the SS decided it was time to evacuate. They planned what prisoners thought of as death marches—lengthy, forced journeys from Auschwitz toward other concentration and death camps. Starting on January 17, prisoners were forced into long columns and told to walk westward toward territory still held by Germany.
Only those in good health a relative term in camps racked with malnutrition and disease could participate, and those who fell were shot and left behind. The death marches , which occurred in extremely cold conditions, killed up to 15, prisoners.
Those who remained were forced into open freight cars and shipped further into the Reich, where they were relocated to various camps still under German control. The guards who remained continued to cover up evidence, including burning warehouses full of plundered possessions. By January 21, most SS officers had left for good. Most of the 9, prisoners who remained at Auschwitz were in dire health.
Others had hidden in the hopes they could escape. Conditions were appalling—there was no food, no fuel, no water. Some prisoners scavenged among the possessions the SS had not managed to destroy. A small group of healthier prisoners attended to the sick. Liberating Auschwitz was not in their orders, but when a group of scouts stumbled into Birkenau on January 27, , they knew they had found something terrible. Then, he saw it: inmates behind barbed wire. The scouts were followed by troops who entered the camp.
They were shocked by what they saw there: piles of ash that had once been human bodies. The Soviet army enters Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz and liberates around 7, prisoners, most of whom are ill and dying. In mid-January , as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps.
SS units forced nearly 60, prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. Thousands had been killed in the camps in the days before these death marches began. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the killing center at Auschwitz. Almost all of the deportees who arrived at the camps were sent immediately to death in the gas chambers. It is estimated that the SS and police deported at a minimum 1. Of these, the camp authorities murdered 1.
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Although much of the West had long lagged behind the rest of the nation in technological
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