Common lit Death marches in the Holocaust
PART B: Which TWO passages from the text best support the answer to Part A A "Shortly after that offensive, SS chief (Reichsfuehrer SS) Heinrich Himmler ordered that prisoners in all concentration camps and subcamps be evacuated toward the interior of the Reich. ( Paragraph 1)
B "... some SS leaders , including Himmler , believed irrationally that they could use Jewish concentration camp prisoners as hostages to bargain for a separate peace in the west that would guarantee the survival of the Nazi regime."
C “As winter approached , however , and the Allies reached the German borders and assumed full control of German skies , SS authorities increasingly evacuated concentration camp prisoners from both east and west on foot ."
D "As evacuations depended increasingly on forced marches and travel by open rail car or small craft in the Baltic Sea in the brutal winter of 1944-1945 , the number who died of exhaustion and exposure along the routes increased dramatically”
E "During these death marches , the SS guards brutally mistreated the prisoners . Following their explicit orders , they shot hundreds of prisoners who collapsed or could not keep pace on the march , or who could no longer disembark from the trains or ships.”
F As Allied forces advanced into the heart of Germany they liberated hundreds of thousands of concentration camp prisoners ."