Thursday, August 26, 2010

DEATH MARCHES:(

   The term death marches is when prisoners were forced to march a long distance in the freezing cold.They practically didn't have food or nothing to drink.The only time they could rest was when the soldiers got to rest, and if you couldn't walk any further you would get shot.
   The earliest death march happened in the 1830's when the us mover the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Mississippi. In 1941 hundreds of thousands of prisoners were forced to walk on the high way of Ukraine and Belorussian. The largest death march was in the winter of 1944-1945.The death marches happened because the soviet army began its liberation of Poland.During World War II the Nazis exterminated 6 million Jews.They would immediately murder homosexuals,Gypsies,Jehovah's witnesses,mentally and physically handicapped,and political prisoners.They would even kill baby's and little kids.They didn't have no hearts at all.Approximately 11 million people were killed under Hitlers order.
     I  don't agree with those times because it was very prejudice. It hurts me  to think of the way these people were treated. As our family was founded on different cultures living as one. However I don't see very much of a difference from now and then because in this world their is still so much prejudice and people are often left out or left behind because of stereotypes and the way that society feels that one should be like. It is a constant battle between what is socially right and how peole choose to be.