On this day in 1945, death marches from Dachau began. The march from Dachau towards the Austrian border was part of an effort by the Nazis to disguise the crimes they had committed during the Holocaust. Prisoners were forced to march in terrible conditions with little to no food, water, or rest. Those who were injured were shot on the road. Three days before Dachau was liberated, SS officers forced at least 25,000 prisoners to march from Dachau and its subcamps to Tegernsee, near the Austrian border. The March lasted until the Germans surrendered. with many of the victims dying of exhaustion along the way. On April 29, 1945, American troops liberated Dachau, and a few days later, rescued the survivors that were marched to Tegernsee. There are no exact numbers for how many people perished in the death march from Dachau, but it is estimated that 200,000 to 250,000 people died in all of the death marches combined, with a quarter to one-third of them being Jews. Today, 22 identical monuments mark the route of the death march from Dachau, and the memorial continues to preserve stories and witness accounts of the marches.