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Question: Nazi Germany!. What happened to the survivors of the Death marches !?
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World War 2 is a massive series of events!. To help give you more info on the period here are some links which I think will be useful to you!.

Little known facts about WW2 (Europe)
http://members!.iinet!.net!.au/~gduncan/194!.!.!.


STALINGRAD (February 2, 1943)

After a 199 day siege the German Sixth Army, under the command of Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, surrenders to the Soviet Union's superior forces!.

Around 147,200 German and Romanian soldiers were killed!.
91,000 were taken prisoner including 24 Generals and 2,500 other officers!.
About 5,000 of these prisoners survived the war!.
14,000 sick and wounded were evacuated by air!.
1,000 crewmen and 488 transport planes were lost in the supply and evacuation effort!.
After the surrender, Germany began a three day period of mourning and Paulus became a member of the Free Committee for a Free Germany, a puppet organization of Soviet Russia, He settled in the former Soviet controlled East Germany after his release from a Soviet prison camp in 1953!. He died on February 1, 1957, in Dresden!. The grave of Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (1890-1957) the first German Field Marshal in history to surrender, is located in the local cemetery at Baden Baden)

The above info re Stalingrad is cut and paste from the site above and sums up quite accuratly how many survived the death marches - in the case of Stalingrad only 5,000 from an original march of 91,000+!.

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Other death marches included Jews marched from eastern camps to camps further west as the Soviet Shock Armies advanced towards Germany!.

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These links describe in graphic detail of the Jews sent on death marches by the Nazis - some of the photographs and text is harrowing in the extreme!.

http://www!.ushmm!.org/wlc/article!.php!?lan!.!.!.

http://www!.jewishvirtuallibrary!.org/jsou!.!.!.

http://www1!.yadvashem!.org/odot_pdf/Micro!.!.!.

http://www!.ushmm!.org/outreach/dmarch!.htm


Israeli Air Force fly over Auschwitz
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=lfv3jsLGz!.!.!.


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1944 - 1945!.The death marches were when towards the end of the war the allies were advancing and the SS not wanting to be discovered at their death camps forced the inmates to march to new camps closer to home!.Most died either on the march if not they were placed in new camps where they were either killed or liberated!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A lot of them went to live in Israel!. Many went to live in the States too!.

At the end of Schindlers List, the real children of Oskar's survivors (grandchildren and their children) pay homage at his grave in the Avenue of Righteous Gentiles in Jerusalem (very moving)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Most are dead of natural causes I'm sure!.

The rest are really old, barely able to recount the stories to their relatives, who are all probably pretty caught-up in the Information Age to the point where history doesn't matter to them much!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The few that survived the march most of them were gassed out of hand, the few survivors of that who were put to slave labour are mostly all dead from old age!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

They survived until liberation or they died upon arrival or during the normal course of work at their new camps!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If they survived they cant have been death marches!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Most of them are dead, the remainders are still in hiding Www@QuestionHome@Com