Hello, does anyone know where the evacuated prisoners were sent when the SS fled the camp? Were the prisoners death marched out of were they sent by rail instead?
Marwood
Groß-Rosen
Re: Groß-Rosen
According to Daniel Blatman, "The Death Marches. The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide", The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge/Mass and London /UK, 2013, various pages:
There were marches and rail transports. The rail transports went to Flossenbürg, Mittelbau-Dora (several thousand) and Bergen-Belsen. Those on foot marches usually went west, many prisoners dying or being shot en route until overrun by Allied armies from the east and west.
It was a similar picture with the Groß-Rosen subcamps.
Basically they went mainly by rail to a variety of places.
The book is also available in German translation.
There were marches and rail transports. The rail transports went to Flossenbürg, Mittelbau-Dora (several thousand) and Bergen-Belsen. Those on foot marches usually went west, many prisoners dying or being shot en route until overrun by Allied armies from the east and west.
It was a similar picture with the Groß-Rosen subcamps.
Basically they went mainly by rail to a variety of places.
The book is also available in German translation.
Re: Groß-Rosen
Thank you very much Steve.
Marwood
Marwood