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Yes Forgive - Nevere Forget - Death Marches 1945, Part 4

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When the war ended in 1945, the concentration camps were in the then third Rich and vacated in occupied countries.The prisoners were sent to so-called "death marches". The marches of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp are subject of this film's. Tracking shots along the former path of the current landscape of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, recall the events at that time. Live in different places along the route Today witnesses. 30 witnesses from the population and 8 survivors of the death march to speak. This part As the fighting forces of the enemy troops had occupied in April 1945, very large parts of the kingdom, were the marching columns of the death marches from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in what is now Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the road. In the area around the towns of Crivitz and Ravens Steinfeld near Schwerin, it came to a complete resolution of the columns. The prisoners were free.