What Were The Three Main Priorities Of Nazi Death Marches

Nazi death marches were very deadly and thousands of innocent people died during them. The Nazis had three main priorities when evacuating the prisoners, how far they would walk, how long the prisoners would walk, the environment they would walk in, how many people died and what they did with the dead bodies.

First, the Nazis had three main priorities when evacuating the prisoners. The first priority is the Nazis didn’t want to let the prisoners escape to tell the story of how badly they were tortured and all the forced labor they had to achieve. The second one is they thought they needed the prisoners to make chemical weapons and other weapons for war. Another one is they thought they could use the Jews as hostages to try and create peace

Some of the prisoners had to walk up to as much as 35 miles all on foot. They would walk from lots of different concentration camps,and the reason they started walking was because the Soviet Union was going after Germany after the attacks Germany made. The Nazis would barely give them any food or water to keep going. If one of the prisoners could not keep up with the group or if they had fallen down they were killed immediately. They were all also forced to walk in weather as cold as ice. That is how far and long they would walk as well as what environment they walked

In fact Jack Aizenberg said, “One day they gave us all a little piece of soap with initials on it like you get in hotels. It stood for ‘pure Jewish fat” (furtherglory.wordpress.com 2017) The soap the prisoners had to use was made of Jewish fat. Over 250,000 prisoners died during the death marches. The Nazis would make huge grave dedicated to lots of prisoners bodies. The Nazis did not want anybody to figure out the crimes they were doing so they wanted all of the prisoners to die on the death marches. That is how many people died and what the nazis did with the dead bodies during the death