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  • 1forced foot — a painful swelling of the feet of soldiers after forced marches, due to fracture of a metatarsal bone …

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  • 2Death marches (Holocaust) — Dachau concentration camp inmates on a death march through a German village in April 1945.[1][2] The death marches refer to the forcible movement between Autumn 1944 and late April 1945 by Nazi Germ …

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  • 3Sandakan Death Marches — The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of more than 3,600 Indonesian civilian slave labourers and 2,400 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Empire of Japan during the …

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  • 4German Eastern Marches Society — (German: Deutscher Ostmarkenverein, also known in German as Verein zur Förderung des Deutschtums in den Ostmarken) was a German radical,[1][2] extremely nationalist[3] xenophobic organization[4] founded in 1 …

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  • 5DEATH MARCHES — DEATH MARCHES, name given by prison inmates and retained by historians to the forced evacuations on foot of concentration and slave labor camps in the winter of 1944–45. With the onset of winter and Allied armies closing in on the Nazi… …

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  • 6Death marches —    As the Third Reich faced defeat at the hands of the Allies, the Germans attempted to hide all evidence of the murder of the Jews and other victims. Toward this end, they dismantled the death camps and forced surviving inmates to march from… …

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  • 7Selma to Montgomery marches — The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. They were the culmination of the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama,… …

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  • 8Ohrdruf forced labor camp — was a Nazi concentration camp located near Weimar, Germany. It was part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network and the first Nazi camp liberated by U.S. troops.Fact|date=June 2008HistoryCreated in November 1944 near the town of Gotha,… …

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  • 9The March (1945) — The March refers to a series of death marches during the final stages of the Second World War in Europe. Over 80,000 Allied PoWs were force marched westward across Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany in appalling winter conditions, lasting about… …

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  • 10French invasion of Russia — Patriotic War of 1812 redirects here. Not to be confused with the Great Patriotic War, the Russian name for World War II on the Eastern European theatre. French invasion of Russia (Patriotic War of 1812) Part of Napoleonic Wars …

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