War Jewish Female Prisoners: The Helmbrechts Death March (WW2 1945) (1 Viewer)

[hedgerow]

just like the krauts to institute a diet and exercise program and get shitted upon for that...what doesn't kill you makes you stronger /S

 

[Stoic69]

May 11, 1945
Volary, Czechoslovakia

The bodies of Jewish women exhumed from a mass grave in Volary. The victims died at the end of a death march from Helmbrechts, a sub-camp of Flossenbuerg.

The Helmbrechts death march was one of hundreds of forced marches that occurred near the end of the war. As Allied troops closed in on Germany from all sides, the prisoners in concentration camps and slave labor commandos were evacuated to camps further from enemy lines. Although some were evacuated by train, many prisoners were sent on foot distances of hundreds of miles. The Helmsbrechts death march began in Gruenberg, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen in Lower Silesia. The prisoners of Gruenberg, consisting of 900 Jewish women of mixed nationality, were evacuated along with 900 other female prisoners from another Gross Rosen sub-camp known as Puerschkau (or Schlesiersee). The group was divided into two smaller groups accompanied by SS men and women, with approximately 1,100 prisoners sent in the direction of the Flossenbuerg concentration camp. The remainder of the group was sent to Bergen-Belsen. On January 29, 1945, the groups left Gruenberg, unaware of the long journey ahead of them.

Although each of the prisoners had been given a blanket before their departure, few had proper shoes, and some were even barefoot or only had cloth wrapped around their feet. They were forced to march from 9-18 miles a day, receiving only a few potatoes or a small bowl of soup once a day for nourishment. They occasionally went without food for one or two days. At night, the women slept in unheated barns or out in the open when shelter could not be procured. In these conditions, several prisoners died each day from frostbite, starvation, and fatigue.

In addition, SS guards killed many prisoners for attempting to escape or lagging behind. Amalie Reichmann (later Mary Robinson), a survivor of the march, recalled that on one occasion when several women tried to escape, the SS lined up all the women on the march and as punishment shot every tenth one. After several weeks of marching, the group reached Dresden just as it was fire-bombed by the Allied planes on February 13-14, 1945. Afterwards, many survivors remembered the fire, destruction, and death as they marched through the city. Finally, on March 6, after five weeks of marching, the first group reached Helmbrechts, a sub-camp of Flossenbuerg, 300 km. from Gruenberg.

Of the original 1,100 prisoners who set out on the death march, only 321 arrived at Helmbrechts. 230 had been left at other camps along the way; a few had escaped; and the remaining 150-250 had died.

1. I don't think that this photo was of the Helmbrechts death march, but was taken about the same time of another death march.
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2. German civilians work to exhume the bodies of the women buried here.
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Upon their arrival in Helmbrechts, the prisoners' clothing was taken away to be deloused, after which they were given temporary clothing and put into separate barracks. Because they were too weak to work, they were given only minimal food and shelter. During their five week stay at Helmbrechts, an additional 40 women died. On April 13, the remaining women were given their clothing back and were sent on a second death march, along with the rest of the 590 prisoners from Helmbrechts.

The group headed southeast, accompanied by 22 SS men and 25 SS women, who brought along a horse-drawn wagon to transport the sick, and later, the dead. On the fifth day, the march reached Zwodau, 80 km. from Helmbrechts. After a day of rest at Zwodau, another women's sub-camp of Flossenbuerg, all the non-Jewish prisoners (primarily those who had been in Helmbrechts prior to the arrival of the death march from Gruenberg) were left behind, while the Jewish prisoners, along with 50 Jewish prisoners from Zwodau, continued on the march.

The remaining 625 prisoners were marched in the direction of Prachatitz, a small town just east of the Czechoslovakian border, where they were to be abandoned. Along the way, 10-12 women died daily of fatigue and starvation, in addition to the 4-8 who were shot or beaten to death by the SS each day, often for no reason. On the 21st day the group reached Volary (Wallern), after having marched 200-300 km. since leaving Helmbrechts, with fewer than half of the prisoners still alive. After the death march reached Volary, there is confusion as to exactly what happened, where the prisoners were sent, and how many more were killed.

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According to Alois Doerr, the top-ranking SS officer on the death march from Helmbrechts, the prisoners were split into three groups upon arriving in Volary. His intention was to march all the prisoners to Prachatitz, yet some were too weak to continue the march. Those still able to walk were sent the following day, while the rest were to be transported by truck. There was only one truck available, in which a small group was loaded and sent after the marching group. The rest of the sick waited in a building adjacent to a factory to be sent on a second trip. The group on foot was abandoned just after Prachatitz, where locals cared for them.

The truck transport, however, was strafed by American planes, killing one SS woman and wounding two others. Some of the prisoners fled, but those not able to get away were brought to a barn nearby. The following day three SS men took those in the barn to the woods and shot 14 of them, letting three go free. The same day 12 other prisoners were shot by SS men in Volary.

It is suspected that both incidents were in retaliation for the death of the SS woman the previous day. Finally, on May 6, the 2nd Regiment of the 5th Division, U.S. 3rd Army entered Volary and liberated the women from the factory building. There they found 118-133 prisoners covered in lice lying on the floor. They had no potable water and only a wooden box in the corner as a toilet. The women were suffering from starvation, malnutrition, tuberculosis, typhus, heart trouble, blistered and gangrenous feet, festered wounds, diarrhea, and frostbite.

Upon seeing the poor condition of the women, American soldiers set up a hospital for them in Volary, where they were able to recuperate for the next few months. On May 11, the mass graves near Volary were discovered, and Germans were forced to exhume them in order to give the victims proper burial. Of the 83-89 bodies exhumed, many of them showed evidence of having been murdered.

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16. German civilians helping and attending the reburial of the women.
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Next: The Survirors.

May 8, 1945
Volary, Czechoslovakia

Emaciated female Jewish survivors of a death march lie in an American military field hospital in Volary, Czechoslovakia.

The Helmbrechts death march was one of hundreds of forced marches that occurred near the end of the war. As Allied troops closed in on Germany from all sides, the prisoners in concentration camps and slave labor commandos were evacuated to camps further from enemy lines.

Although some were evacuated by train, many prisoners were sent on foot distances of hundreds of miles. The Helmsbrechts death march began in Gruenberg, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen in Lower Silesia. The prisoners of Gruenberg, consisting of 900 Jewish women of mixed nationality, were evacuated along with 900 other female prisoners from another Gross Rosen sub-camp known as Puerschkau (or Schlesiersee).

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The group was divided into two smaller groups accompanied by SS men and women, with approximately 1,100 prisoners sent in the direction of the Flossenbuerg concentration camp. The remainder of the group was sent to Bergen-Belsen. On January 29, 1945, the groups left Gruenberg, unaware of the long journey ahead of them.

Although each of the prisoners had been given a blanket before their departure, few had proper shoes, and some were even barefoot or only had cloth wrapped around their feet. They were forced to march from 9-18 miles a day, receiving only a few potatoes or a small bowl of soup once a day for nourishment. They occasionally went without food for one or two days.

At night, the women slept in unheated barns or out in the open when shelter could not be procured. In these conditions, several prisoners died each day from frostbite, starvation, and fatigue. In addition, SS guards killed many prisoners for attempting to escape or lagging behind.

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Amalie Reichmann (later Mary Robinson), a survivor of the march, recalled that on one occasion when several women tried to escape, the SS lined up all the women on the march and as punishment shot every tenth one.

Of the original 1,100 prisoners who set out on the death march, only 321 arrived at Helmbrechts. 230 had been left at other camps along the way; a few had escaped; and the remaining 150-250 had died.

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The End.

The only problem Hitler made was that he only killed 8 million jews. And left 3 million to reproduce. Almost gottem all, ALMOST.

 

[lilifrst]

Informed debate is a very difficult thing for some to master.

their little egos get all inflamed.

But I appreciate your efforts in posting the original picures which I had not seen before. I know how long it takes to make a good post and then get baby emojis showing a Red Cross or a 'gay fag' symbol. Which is the online equivalent of a grunt.

I note the pic directly above shows a plasma bottle on an IV pole. I wonder what she was being specifically treated for ?

I know typhoid was rife in the camps at liberation. I am unsure if blood plasma was needed for this. Could just be a sugar saline drip for rehydration, maybe for dysentery.

Flatustube or Zerok?i

 

[rodmanii]

hitler did nothing wrong, jews arent people but human garbage, just look at the current state of the west to see what happends when jews are given rights

 

[lilifrst]

Informed debate is a very difficult thing for some to master.

their little egos get all inflamed.

But I appreciate your efforts in posting the original picures which I had not seen before. I know how long it takes to make a good post and then get baby emojis showing a Red Cross or a 'gay fag' symbol. Which is the online equivalent of a grunt.

I note the pic directly above shows a plasma bottle on an IV pole. I wonder what she was being specifically treated for ?

I know typhoid was rife in the camps at liberation. I am unsure if blood plasma was needed for this. Could just be a sugar saline drip for rehydration, maybe for dysentery.

Flatustube or Zerok?

I see that there are two drip bottles present, one bigger than the other. This is being infused into the patient on the bottom bunk as a result of severe malnutrition. The big bottle is what I assume is a feeding tube. Even people are starved for a long duration, the organs get slowed down and dehydrated, so when the person eats again, the intestinal tract goes into something called refeeding syndrome, which basically causes everything swallowed to come back up again. To get the gastrointestinal tract moving again, liquid nutrition must be introduced first. I agree that the small bottle is likely an IV drip filled with saline given to the person for rehydration until she could eat on her own.

 

[wiggins]

I see that there are two drip bottles present, one bigger than the other. This is being infused into the patient on the bottom bunk as a result of severe malnutrition. The big bottle is what I assume is a feeding tube. Even people are starved for a long duration, the organs get slowed down and dehydrated, so when the person eats again, the intestinal tract goes into something called refeeding syndrome, which basically causes everything swallowed to come back up again. To get the gastrointestinal tract moving again, liquid nutrition must be introduced first. I agree that the small bottle is likely an IV drip filled with saline given to the person for rehydration until she could eat on her own.

Thank you for your great response. this may interest you:

The Minnesota starvation experiment

Why conscientious objectors volunteered to be starved for six months during World War Two.

www.bbc.com

 

[Unhinged & mildly racist]

Fuck the Jews lol

 

[Bigbillt]

Number 9 is a hottie.

but what is this? Some kind of skinny girl porn?

I bet that 'doctor' was scoring a lot of sex for cigarettes...

I know I would. In fact I think they hire out the doctors gear to normal GI's who want sex with skinny chicks...

You into starving women?

 

[wiggins]

You into starving women?

No. I'm a feeder...

 

[Bender41]

Imagine walking into a whorehouse and this is what you get to choose from

 

[pangs]

For the dead, the horror is over

 

[march7thisdamned]

Kind of like Europeans did to the natives in north and South America?

no, more sneaky and organized. Henry Ford explains what happened in his book.

 

[Silent Shark]

That you can, but when you put a lot of work into posting a thread, without making any political statements for either side, and then someone basically ignores the thread just to have there strong political say once they read the subject matter as though the entire thread is bullshit then it makes the post senseless. Free speech doesn't mean that one has to say it - just because they feel so justified in doing it like a mighty right.

Quote from the Admin's message at the top of every page: "Debate is encouraged in the comments from all sides but trolls derailing topics or members starting shit with each other will be removed. Take the bullshit to FLH."

Folks who respond like that do not debate: they are right, you are wrong and yada yada power trip. But, even though I've been working Gore sites since 2004 when Ogrish was still in it's infancy (or teen years) and I've seen it all - subtle trolls tend to wreck otherwise good threads with their opinions, which are like assholes - everyone had one.

Thread's getting derailed already...and is making me regret that work I did to put it together. Maybe we can get back to the subject of the thread at face value, without the rhetoric? It's gore, not a political statement .

😍

Wow this was a fantastic read. I’ll never get tired of reading and watching historical works on the holocaust. I’ve been obsessed since I learned what it was when I was about 10.

Same here.My mom read me The Hiding Place when I was 7😬I was fascinated and scared it’s led to a lifelong obsession as well

 

[Robert Banks]

A lot of people died horribly during that war, not just jews. Something like 70 million is the latest count I've heard.

According to Wikipedia, after Executive Order 9066 was made over 100,000 Japanese-Americans were placed in “relocation camps.” Many lost their jobs, their homes, and some even lost their lives.

Luckily for them, America's infrastructure and civilian populations weren't subjected to the same bombing campaign that the Germans received. Otherwise, the Japanese could have it a lot worst.

Remember the Guantanamo Bay detention camp?

My illegitimate occupational government has never hesitated to cause others harm in pursuit of its interests. And neither has the Israeli government.

It is not hard to whitewash your country's war crimes when victory is won. But a layer of paint will not erase them.

 

[BlueVelvetBully]

The Europeans didn't invade...they landed, made treaties, bought land, and established settlements (North America, that is) and depending on who was arming the natives (the Brits, the French or the Dutch) there were good relations. My ancestors were French Acadians who settled Acadia in the 1630's - they bought their land, traded, sometimes inter-married, and had no problems with the Mik'mah. The Brits then invaded Acadia, took it over, and deported almost the entire Acadian population (about 12,000), but not a single native. South America would be the Spanish: and yes, they invaded and wiped out most who were already there. That didn't happen in North America.

The Acadians were the true first Canucks.....then they got nailed by English. They wouldn't take an oath to King George - so they boogied their asses down to Louisiana and become what is now known as Coonasses ( Cajuns ) .

 

[Lastolun]

Cool set pics

 

[dark skies]

That you can, but when you put a lot of work into posting a thread, without making any political statements for either side, and then someone basically ignores the thread just to have there strong political say once they read the subject matter as though the entire thread is bullshit then it makes the post senseless. Free speech doesn't mean that one has to say it - just because they feel so justified in doing it like a mighty right.

Quote from the Admin's message at the top of every page: "Debate is encouraged in the comments from all sides but trolls derailing topics or members starting shit with each other will be removed. Take the bullshit to FLH."

Folks who respond like that do not debate: they are right, you are wrong and yada yada power trip. But, even though I've been working Gore sites since 2004 when Ogrish was still in it's infancy (or teen years) and I've seen it all - subtle trolls tend to wreck otherwise good threads with their opinions, which are like assholes - everyone had one.

Thread's getting derailed already...and is making me regret that work I did to put it together. Maybe we can get back to the subject of the thread at face value, without the rhetoric? It's gore, not a political statement .

Maybe you posted it on the wrong site. A more War themed site where people would appreciate your work and time and understand what you were trying to do would've been a better choice.

 

[ledbetterp3]

Fucking Jews….at least one group is always after the Jews.

Fuck you, bitch. Those are my children.

 

[spidey1982]

War is a bitch.... bad things happen in wars.....war criminals end up dying.... give me a fuckin break with these poor persecuted "joos".....
If a race of people invade a country and then proceed to start taking advantage of that country, at the detriment of its native population, it WILL be more damaging than any conventional war..... it will have far reaching negative effects on the native peoples history and future...
NO FUCKS GIVEN TO A WHOLE RACE OF "MONEY LENDERS"....

Let analyze what transpired in Germany. This is a topic I am very researched in given my father’s side of the family was from Germany. My dad was born in Germany in 1933, and my family can trace its roots as far back as 1730 in the area that would become Germany in the 1870s.

What befell the Germans in the years after world war 1 was not the Jews fault. It was the social democrats who were quick to surrender as opposed to allowing the Germany Army to fight to the death. The German political elite should had sacrificed the German Army in order to get better terms following the Armistice - which was the worst deal that could had been agreed to.

Also… the idea of having a native population in the area that would become Germany is rather peculiar given the banner of the German state was just recently created in 1871. Populations had been living in the lands way before Germany would become a country.

What happened to the Jews of Germany would not had occurred if Socialisms broken moral compass did not over take the majority German People. Unfortunately many of the Germans had no choice but to go along with the socialists. If you read about what happened, you will understand there is much more to this topic. This is still being analyzed today.

But there is one thing you mentioned above that should spell a gloomy future for all of the foreigners and Arabs who are relocating to Europe. Their day is coming

 

[dwdays]

Fuck you, bitch. Those are my children.

You could’ve given them and their little coaster-hats up for adoption