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The Flossenburg death march, from Flossenburg to Namering, along Highway N-14 toward the Czech border resulted in the deaths of over 800 prisoners. While most victims died of clubbing or machine-gun fire, many also died of exhaustion. Their bodies were simply left along side the road, a few were put in shallow graves. General Patton issued orders that required local German civilians to exhume the hundreds of bodies and dig mass graves for them.

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