A march is an organized, directed and at the same time intentional movement of a military or civilian group.

In some cases both.

The march can serve as a logistical tool, or as a ceremonial expression. If a march intends to kill its participants, it’s called a death march.

With the death marches of 1944 and 1945, the Nazis pursued the goal of removing evidence of their crimes in the concentration and extermination camps by eliminating the victims in the final phase of the Second World War.

Who accompanied my grandfather on the death march to Bergen Belsen?

“A line of 3000 people was led by 30 Germans. And in the morning there were 20 and then 10. They realized that that was the end of the war and that they would be caught. Everyone wanted to flee. And we walked like cattle.”