Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James Rogers and in this episode

we're exploring the shocking history of Nazi death marches during the death marches that happened

towards the end of the war tens of thousands of people died on the

roadside from exhaustion, was shot for fame to keep up, or murdered in seemingly random

massacres. All of this, as the Nazis moved people from concentration camps before liberation

by the Allies.

In essence, the Nazis left a trail of blood across Europe.

Now, the Vina Holocaust Library in London is translating personal accounts from these marches and they're exhibiting them to the public as part of their new death marches evidence and memory exhibition.

We have Professor Dan Stone and Dr

Christine Schmidt who are part of this exhibition and they take us through the key

aspects and personal stories behind this important yet incredibly sobering history. Thank you so much for coming on the history hit warfare podcast.

Thank you very much for coming on the history hit Warfare podcast.

Thank you very much for having us.

Thanks for having us.

Not a problem at all.

The team and I read about your astonishing new exhibition and the research into the first-hand stories from the Nazi death marches.

And we had to get you on the podcast to tell us all about this important history.

But perhaps we start there. Perhaps you can start by telling us what the Nazi death marches were and who was involved.

Sure. This is a really important part of the history of the Holocaust and beyond in terms of the

wider Nazi criminality and it's one that's often overlooked in the histories of the period which

is why we wanted to address it in this exhibition.

You often find references to death marches in survivor accounts, post-war accounts and post-war testimonies

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