“The Soviet troops found grisly evidence of the horror. About 7,000 starving prisoners were found alive in the camp. Millions of items of clothing that once belonged to men, women and children were discovered along with 6,350kg of human hair” (“Auschwitz: A Short History of The Largest Mass Murder Site In Human History” 1). The previous quote was only a fraction of the many barbaric and inhumane acts that were implemented against prisoners in many concentration camps across Germany and countries under its reign. During World War II in the 1940s, the Auschwitz concentration camp had affected many innocent Jewish inmates and had conducted various atrocious experiments and punishments on/to the detained at the concentration camp. Some of those …show more content…
These experiments were solely based on starvation and torture methods. Muselmann was a derogatory term used for those who were on the verge of death due to their situation (the experiments and treatments). A Muselmann was often found emotionless due to the extreme conditions that was present. A quote to show the state of a Muselmann is, “The torture of hunger, though common in concentration camps, affected mussulmen most acutely. Their fate was connected with starvation and the torments of hunger. Leaving out other factors, the dependence between hunger and the Muselmann was direct. Hence a mental [shortcut] in the camp: want of food--hunger--becoming a Muselmann--death” (“Between life and death: Experiences of concentration camp muselmann during the Holocaust” 7). The physique of a Muselmann was horrifying. There were primarily gaunt skeletons that was covered in a thin layer of skin, long noses, the face shape was very narrow and slender, mostly bony. Ribs stuck out extremely visibly, legs were “thin as sticks” and swollen at the knee joints, sometimes even swollen from feet to knees. The arms were almost always fleshless, long, almost looked like spades (“Between life and death: Experiences of concentration camp muselmann during the Holocaust” 7). The experiments were extremely excruciating and it is quite evident through the accounts of the horrified