Death Marches

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not been
exposed to the kind of Nazi propaganda that was utilized as a control
measure through out the early part of World War II that the mass
exterminations would have been far less effective. At the same time,
Nazi occupation of much of Europe during this period maintained an
atmosphere capable of quelling resistance, even to the horrific death
camp marches that occurred following increasing ghettoization of the
Jewish population and subsequent implementation of the death march to
exterminate large segments of the Jewish population.
Warsaw
Perhaps one of the most interesting examples of the kinds of
atrocities that occurred and the implementation of the death march can
be assessed in the events that followed the ghettoization of the Jewish
community in Warsaw. After the occupation of Poland, the Nazi regime
determined the necessity centralizing the Jewish community, only to
force many into the killing facilities at Auschwitz-Birkenau between
1942 and 1944. ...

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it took just eight days for the Germans to advance on Warsaw (Richardson
uprising.htm). Though the Polish Army worked in resistance to German
occupation, the German "Blitzkrieg" or "lightening war" was unstoppable,
and by late September, Warsaw fell with over 50,000 casualties in the
city alone and some 25 percent of the buildings in ruins (Richardson
uprising.htm). The demoralized and demolished Poland was conquered
(Richardson uprising.htm).
The conditions of the surrender of Warsaw included a statement
about the Jewish population, and a promise was made by the German
Wehrmacht, General von Blaskowitz, that no harm would come to the Polish
Jews (Richardson uprising.htm). ...

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