Number of prisoners and deaths on death marches during the Holocaust 1945
Operation Barbarossa, where thousands of Soviet POWs were marched from the eastern front to Poland and Germany to be used as slave laborers, and around 76,000 Hungarian Jews were marched from Budapest to Austria Germany in March 1944. However, these marches became much more common from January 1945, as the Soviets pushed the Axis forces out of Poland.
Sometimes referred to as “the final phase of Nazi genocide”, so-called death marches were a frequent occurrence in German territories in the final year of the Second World War. As the Allied forces pushed towards Germany from all sides, the SS began to evacuate prisoners from concentration camps, particularly in Eastern Europe, to be used as slave laborers in Germany. Such death marches had been used during