25. Les marches de la mort : la dimension sociale de la violence dans la phase de la fin de la guerre
At the beginning of 1945, the Nazi regime still held about 700,000 prisoners in concentration camps. One third of them did not live to see the end of the war. Most of them were Jews. Many of them died on the death marches during the evacuation of the camps. These marches led the horrors of the Nazi...
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2018
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | At the beginning of 1945, the Nazi regime still held about 700,000 prisoners in concentration camps. One third of them did not live to see the end of the war. Most of them were Jews. Many of them died on the death marches during the evacuation of the camps. These marches led the horrors of the Nazi camp regime right into the middle of German society at the final phase of the war.The exhausted marchers appeared threatening and to be a warning sign of defeat; they became targets of revenge and anger. Many “national comrades” hunted escaped prisoners and murdered them. Until the end, this violence stemmed from the logic of Nazi ideology, to which many clung at a time of insecurity and chaos: for the perpetrators, it was apparently easier to systematically murder than to question their own world view and identity and accept defeat. |
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