At the end of WWII, ten thousand POWs anticipated liberation courtesy of the advancing Russian Red Army. The Nazis dashed these hopes, forcing the prisoners to march in the dead of winter to... Read allAt the end of WWII, ten thousand POWs anticipated liberation courtesy of the advancing Russian Red Army. The Nazis dashed these hopes, forcing the prisoners to march in the dead of winter toward the center of a collapsing Third Reich.At the end of WWII, ten thousand POWs anticipated liberation courtesy of the advancing Russian Red Army. The Nazis dashed these hopes, forcing the prisoners to march in the dead of winter toward the center of a collapsing Third Reich.