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This is a category for those persons who were prisoners in the World War II Bataan Death March. It includes both those who survived and those who died. It includes both those who survived and those who died.
a march from Stalag VIII-B, known as the "Lamsdorf Death March", [2] which was similar to the better-known Bataan Death March (1942) in terms of mortality rates. [ 3 ] from Stalag Luft III in Silesia to Bavaria
People were killed by stampede during an attack by the RAF Bomber Command in WWII as they made their way into Galleria delle Grazie, a railway tunnel in use as an air-raid shelter. Rushing down the 150 steps leading underground into the shelter, people fell on top of one another in a crush, accounting for the extremely heavy toll of the stampede.
Until 1944 the Italian government showed interest and preoccupation for the violence and gathered information about the victims. [5] By December 1948 there were 10,000 cases submitted to Italian authorities but funds were scarce because of war indemnities Italy had to pay to France and this issue was an obstacle on the restoration of diplomatic ...
Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, A map of the Death March of Brandenburg. Todesmarsch Dachau: Death marches from Dachau, Kaufering, Mühldorf and Allach (in German) USHMM Photos page of Waakirchen and 522nd FA BN Nisei soldiers; Memorial to the Death March Victims: Chelm and Hrubieszow, Poland Archived 2013-08-01 at archive.today
Two of the three major Axis powers of World War II—Nazi Germany and their Fascist Italian allies—committed war crimes in the Kingdom of Italy.. Research funded by the German government and published in 2016 found the number of victims of Nazi war crimes in Italy to be 22,000, double the previously estimated figure.
After the Battle of Stalingrad in February 1943, numerous German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union were subject to death marches; after enduring a period of captivity near Stalingrad, they were sent by the Soviet authorities on a "death march across the frozen steppe" to labor camps elsewhere in the Soviet Union. [20] [21]
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