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Forced evacuationNazi euphemism for deportation. The forced relocation of Jews and Gypsies as well as Slavic native populations from their homes to other localities, usually to ghettos or concentration camps, labor camps and killing centers. Nazis referred to deportations as "evacuations" or "resettlements" to disguise this component of mass murder. marches by foot and train from concentration camps, usually at or shortly before liberation. Prisoners were usually driven westward or southward toward Germany from the eastern camps as they were about to be liberated by the advancing Soviet and other Allied armies. The mortality rates on these evacuations were very high, caused by hunger, exposure, shooting by SSThe SS started as guard detachments formed in 1925 to act as Hitler's personal guard. From 1929 on, under Heinrich Himmler, the SS developed into the elite units of the Nazi party. These Nazi paramilitary, black-shirted storm troops used two symbols copied from Teutonic runes -- a parallel, jagged double S usually used as a warning for high-tension wires or lightning. The SS was built into a giant organization by Himmler and provided the staff for the police, concentration camp guards and fighting units [Waffen SS]. guards, and the chaos of the last months of the war.