The following was compiled by an unknown prisoner of war, chronicling the Long March from E715 at Auschwitz.
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DATE Jan 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st Feb 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th
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COMMENTS Left Auschwitz
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Left at 10.00 hrs by train Arrived 0300 hrs Left 1015 hrs Arrived 1500 hrs 2230 hrs Worked in Regensberg for a month cleaning up Bomb rubble Heard that the Yanks were 28 kms north of us 1900 hrs marched all night 0730 hrs arrived 2100 hrs left 0430 hrs |
STOPPED AT Neuberun Tichau 13 kms east of Rybnik 13 kms east of Ratibor 12 kms east of Ratibor 4 kms west of Kreuzendorf
Kroppau (Odersch)
Sosson, Sudetenland Freudenthal
Andersdorf (Ronderstadt) Deutschlibau Mahr Schönberg
4 kms east of Schildberg 2 kms east of Landskron 10 kms east of Landskron
via Wildenschwert to Chotzen (Czechoslovakia)
Oberjellen Hoch Chwojno
Oppatowitz Lautersdorf (near Konigratz)
Baschnitz Aulibitz (near Hauschnitz)
Oberbauson near Sobrotka Repon 4 kms from Jungbunzlau
Kropatsch Wrotitz Subarsch
Slosein 30 kms from Prague 3 kms east of Schlan
Stern Nesuchin west of Renton
Willenz (Sudetenland) Grossfurwitz
Deutchkilmes
Gangerhof Abaschin near Marienbad
Plan 20 kms east of Haid Fschowitz 2 kms east of Haid Peraumberg east of Remmelsberg
Moosbach (Bavaria)
Schanesreith Theissel
Weiden
Nurnberg
Regensberg, marched to Obertraubling
Mittelhausenbach
15 kms north east of Landshut |
DISTANCE 18 kms 15 kms 23 kms 23 kms 6 kms 15 kms
32 kms
26 kms 13 kms
32 kms 26 kms 13 kms
22 kms 20 kms 12 kms
28 kms
12 kms 13 kms
19 kms 17 kms
11 kms 13 kms
30 kms 14 kms
26 kms 13 kms
15 kms 23 kms
11 kms 24 kms
13 kms 19 kms
21 kms
19 kms 16 kms
16 kms 16 kms 11 kms
24 kms
16 kms 7 kms
7 kms
43 kms
30 kms |
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26th 27th 28th 29th 30th May 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th
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Day off Day off Guards "evacuated" SS fighting Yanks estimated 3 kms away. 0630 hrs Yanks arrive in small Tank. Snowed all day. Lads impatient to get home. More snow. More snow. Heard that Adolph Hitler died on 2nd May. Still waiting Still waiting 1441 hrs war finished. Deloused. Detailed I/C plane. When it arrives. 1455 hrs. Left for Landshut Aerodrome. No planes so returned. 1630 hrs. Left Landshut by Plane. Dakota, American crew. Plane called "Round Robin". 1900 hrs. arrived at Rheims in France. At American Camp At American Camp Flew in Lancaster, to Oakey airfield, near Aylesbury. Arrived at 1700 hrs. Deloused again, and then taken to Camp at Hartwell Park. 0815 hrs on train at Aylesbury. 1010 hrs arrived home. |