The Death Marches
The death marches were important because the Jews had to march to other camps for weeks without food or water. They had no proper clothes to keep them warm in the 2 feet high snow so many of them would die of hypothermia. The Nazis made them go on these death marches because the American soldiers and the Russian soldiers were closing in on them. So the Nazis thought to keep the soldiers form seeing the Jews they took them to other concentration camps in the harsh summers and winters.
Prisoners were taken by train and then by foot on death marches. Prisoners were forced to march long distances in the bitter cold, with unproper clothing. Those who didn't keep up would be shot. One in four people would die on these walkes. These people were abused and killed if they tried to escape. All of this happened near the end of the war. The Jews would walk to concentration camps that were far away and some across the country.