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Documentary about the horrors of the last months of World War II and the infamous death marches. In early 1945, wherever the Allies advanced near the concentration camps, the prisoners were driven by the Nazis toward the center of the Reich. Men and women from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück camps had to march up to 250 kilometers in the hope of perhaps escaping with their lives in the end. It was not until early May 1945 that the survivors of this ordeal were liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and the US Army. In his film, director Martin Gressmann follows the main routes of the death marches through Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 200 memorial plaques stand today. At the same time, he lets the last witnesses have their say.