DEATH MARCHES IN THE HOLOCAUST commonlit PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text?
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The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through work in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland.
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During the Holocaust, Nazi Germany confined Jews and other so-called “racially undesired elements” of German society to concentration camps. Towards the end of the war, concentration camp prisoners were evacuated, often on foot. The grueling marches that followed became known as “death marches.” This text discusses the motivations of the Nazi soldiers to evacuate prisoners, as well as what prisoners experienced during evacuations.