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- around 150,000 people were killed in the marches or World War II.
- most marches occurred in the winter which made conditions harsh for the people to walk in.
- the term "death marsh" was made up by prisoners along the way walking in the march. it was not because of how long the walk was, but because of the way the German guards would treat them and kill them.

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World War II  began in 1939 and a few SS guards started to "evacuate" everyone from Auschwitz and their camps (only on Hitler and other guards
orders.) A few reasons the guards evacuated the camps were because they did not want the prisoners to be alive to tell their stories to Germany's enemies and they believed they needed prisoners to process weapons for them whenever they needed. If people were not able to keep up with the line, they were shot no matter what. The trick was to stay at the front of the line in order to keep walking.

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Lester Tenney, a death march survivor, describes what it was like being in a death march during World War II.

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A death march was a line consisting of prisoners or innocent people that were put through intolerable conditions as a way of punishment.

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"German civilians secretly photographed several death marches from the Dachau concentration camp as the prisoners moved slowly through the Bavarian towns of Gruenwald, Wolfratshausen, and Herbertshausen." - KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau