The death marches from the concentration camps shortly before the end of World War II were the last societal crime of the Nazis. Martin Clemens Winter focuses on the role of the German population in the evacuation transports in his study, which relies on numerous newly uncovered sources from international archives. He examines not only the rural areas, the key actors, and typical situations during the death marches but also the aftermath of these mass crimes at home: the legal prosecution by Allied and German authorities, the search for the victims, and forms of remembrance in the GDR and the Federal Republic.