Survivors Testimonies of the Holocaust

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OCR: In the iast months of the war Allied forces approached and liberated one Nazi camp after another Because the prisoners these camps were potential witnesses, the guards had to keep them from falling into enemy hands. Aithough killing them would have been the easiest means 0f achieving this end the 55 sent hundreds of thousands prisoners on death marches to camps deeper within Germany Germany desperate need for iaborers was the primary reason for doing this. Before the death marches, guards forced the inmates to destroy evidence of Nazi atrocities dismantle crematoria burn barracks and dig up mass graves and burn the human remains in them After the march ies any prisoners who Survived could be orced to work at iabor camps in the German interior In November 1944 part of eariy negotiations wit ...