2. What geographical factors
do you think were involved in the Germans' decisions
about the locations of the death camps?

There may be several geographical reasons why the Nazis chose their locations, but mainly they needed large spaces especially for Auschwitz. They were often further away from the population which made it more difficult to find out what they were actually doing in the concentration camps.

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.