After WWII, What caused the deaths of concentration camp survivors fed too much too fast?
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Their bodies were literally unable to process the calories.  The human body is remarkable in its ability to adapt.  We are designed to shut down systematically, sacrificing the non-essential parts to save the essential ones.  First we live off the fat, then the muscle, then the organs that are nonessential.  At the same time the body begins to shut down non-essential functions to conserve energy.  Concentration victims were not starved in one sudden shot - they were systematically starved over many months and years.  Over time, their bodies become extremely efficient at performing only the most vital bodily functions on a minimum of calories.\n\nUnfortunately, when they were rescued and fed, a massive amount of calories, fat, protein, etc were put into their system at once.  For bodies that had been conditioned to exist on the barest minimum, it was too much.  Systems couldn't simply restart, and the sudden intake of so many calories literally sent the body into shock, much like freezing or a sudden trauma.  That type of shock would be completely survivable by a normal body, in much the same way a roller coaster ride is survived and enjoyed.  But for their abused bodies, it was too much.  There were reports of people scarfing down bowls of potato and pork-fat soup ravenously, only to die from shock, a smile still on their face.\n\nVery, very sad.\n.
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do you mean why? because you cut off the circulation to them. That is why some people die because of it after LONG plane rides that don't get up at all and all of a sudden they get up and drop dead. Too much blood too fast.
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Holocaust (hŏl'əkôst', hō'lə–) , name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. Although anti-Semitism in Europe has a long history, persecution of German Jews began with Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Jews were disenfranchised, then terrorized in anti-Jewish riots (such as Kristallnacht), forced into the ghettos, their property seized, and finally were sent to concentration camps. After the outbreak of World War II, Hitler established death camps to secretly implement what he called “the final solution of the Jewish question.” Extermination squads were also sent to the fronts: In one operation alone, over 30,000 Jews were killed at Babi Yar, outside Kiev. After 450,000 Jews were sent to death camps from the Warsaw Ghetto, news of their fate led the last 60,000 to rebel (1943), fighting until they were killed, captured, or escaped to join the resistance. The main Jewish resistance was spiritual: observing their religion and refraining from suicide, while Zionists evacuated some to Palestine. By the end of the war 6 million Jews had been systematically murdered. The Allies refused rescue attempts and American Jews were warned against attempting them. While the European churches were silent, some clergy and individual non-Jews saved many. The Danes sent most Danish Jews to Sweden in private boats while under German occupation.\nAfter the war Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes at Nuremburg, and West Germany later adopted (1953) the Federal Compensation Law, under which billions of dollars were paid to those who survived Nazi persecution. In the mid-1990s a number of suits were filed against Swiss banks that held accounts belonging to Holocaust victims but had denied the fact and failed to restore the money. A settlement reached in 1998 established a $1.25 billion fund to be used to compensate those who can document their claims and, more generally, Holocaust survivors, the latter as restitution for undocumented accounts and for Swiss profits on Nazi accounts involving Holocaust victims' property. In 1998 the Roman Catholic Church issued a document acknowledging Catholic complicity in the long-standing European anti-Semitism that was background to the Holocaust. Under the terms of an agreement signed in 2000 by the United States and Germany, a $5 billion fund was established by the German government and German industry to compensate those who were slave or forced laborers or who suffered a variety of other losses under the Nazi regime.\n\nThe destruction of European Jewry has demanded a reevaluation by Jews the world over. The renascent Jewish community in the state of Israel, itself largely a byproduct of the Holocaust, now serves as a focal point for much of this energy. A vast literature consisting of histories, diaries, memoirs, poetry, novels, and prayers has emerged in an effort to understand the Holocaust in terms of its religious and secular implications. The secular materials attempt to explain how it happened and the reactions of the victims; some have suggested that an underlying and pervasive anti-Semitism in Germany was fueled by a deep and complete despair combined with a corrosive and unacknowleged sense of worthlessness that had been created by crushing and humiliating hardships and the disintegration of the Weimar Republic. The religious materials focus on the problem of whether one can still speak in traditional Jewish terms of a God, active in history, who rewards the righteous and who maintains a unique relationship with the Jewish people. Museums and memorials have been established in a number of cities worldwide to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.\n\nsome sites to check out are - \nwww.ushmm.org/wlc/en\nwww.holocaust-history.org\nholocaust.about.com\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust
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The Holocaust was more than a Jewish event. Records kept by the Germans prove they exterminated millions of Communists, Czechs, Greeks, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, mentally and physically handicapped, Poles, resistance fighters, Russians, Serbs, Socialists, Spanish Republicans, trade unionists, Ukrainians, Yugoslavians, prisoners of war of many nations, and still others whose identity may never be recognized. Their victims, according to one survivor of four different concentration camps, "were of some thirty nationalities, from Nepalese to Andorrans, and of a variety of racial and linguistic stocks ranging from Basques to Buriats and from Ladinos to Lapps". When people were not immediately exterminated, they were sent to work and/or concentration camps. There the prisoners were divided into six penal categories and given patches on their clothing for identification purposes. Ordinary criminals were assigned green; political prisoners wore red; black was worn by asocials (slackers, prostitutes, procurers, etc.); homosexuals wore pink; conscientious objectors wore purple, and the Jewish people wore yellow.\n\nOh and by the way Hitler was NOT of the jewish faith ... Hitler, himself, was a Catholic.
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Ask the Jews if they thought war was necessary during WWII.\n\nAuschwitz\n\nAuschwitz was the largest concentration camp. Auschwitz was located in Poland. It was made up of 3 concentration camps in one. It was a camp that had forced work and killed people. The people were sent from a forced labor camp to a death camp when they became old or when they were weak to be killed. Some were also tested for experiments that tested medical things, such as diseases and cures. About 1 ¼ million people were killed at Auschwitz during World War II.\n\nBergen-Belsen\n\nBergen-Belsen was near the villages of Bergen and Belsen in Germany. It was built in 1943 as a prison camp and a Jewish slave work camp. It was meant for 10,000 people but ended up holding 41,000. It did not have any gas chambers, but 37,000 prisoners died there. They died from diseases or just being over worked. Anne Frank, one of the most famous concentration camp victims today, died there.\n\nBuchenwald\n\nBuchenwald was one of the first and the biggest concentration camps. It was built in 1937 in Weimar, Germany. It held 20,000 prisoners and most of them worked as slaves in near by factories. There were no gas chambers in Buchenwald, but many died from disease, little food or the wrong kind of food (malnutrition), exhaustion, beatings, and executions. Prisoners were used to test the viruses and their vaccines.\n\nDachau\n\nDachau was the first Nazi concentration camp built. The camp was built in 1933. It was located in Dachau, Germany. The camp was meant to perfrom medical experiments on prisoners. These experiments left the people dead or disabled. The experiments and the harsh living conditions made it one of the most harsh camps. It was not designed as a killing camp though.\n\nSachsenhausen\n\nThis camp was located near the village of Sachsenhausen, in north Germany. It was built in 1936 as a part of 3 camps including Buchenwald and Dachau. The early prisoners of the camp were 10,000 Jewish people from Berlin and Hamburg. 200,000 people were in the camp and 100,000 of them ended up dying from disease, exhaustion, and over working in the local factories. A lot of the rest were brought to many other death camps.\n\nTheresienstadt\n\nThis camp was in north Bohemia (in modern Czech Republic). The camp later became a walled-in ghetto (a part of a city where Jewish people were forced to live) in 1941. After the people that were not Jews were evacuated, they started sending more Jews to the camp from Germany, Austria, Denmark, and other countries. Out of 14 1,000 Jewish people sent to Theresienstadt, 33,500 people died from the crowding in the ghettto, 88,000 Jews were sent to killing camps, from Theresienstadt, especially Auschwitz.\n\nI think you see my point.
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It's actually a toss-up between Germany in WW2, and Iraq during Saddam's reign.  The longer we stay in the latter, the more mass graves are found.  So far the number is up to well over a quarter of a million.  Hitler killed over 6 million.  \nAnyone who says the US obviously hasn't read their history books...\nHiroshima and Nagasaki were both catastrophic...but as was said before,(maybe it was in another question) the US probably didn't even realize what the radioactive materials would do.\nIf they did, blame the Democrat that was in office at the time!  (Even though he was one of the best presidents ever...)
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Concentration camp?  Are there such things these days?  If not, your question goes back a ways.  Many people have been born in captivity, in the course of time.  Sometimes they survive, and sometimes they do not.  The Nazi concentration camps were especially brutal, however.  Many babies were taken away to be used in "medical experiments."  I seriously hope there is nothing like that still going on in this world!
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German resistance would have collapsed sooner.  The Allies were going for "Unconditional Surrender" no matter who was in charge for the Germans.  The result for the most part would have been the same, probably saving a significant number of lives on both sides. The political climate may have been more friendly between east & west over the next 60 years.  There might not have been the partitioning of Germany the way it was.  And maybe it could have freed up a lot of needed resources to get the Pacific war ended sooner also.
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Generally the speed of this depends on the weakness of the immune system and age.  Could go very rapidly in very aged.\n\nAlso in immune compromised such as HIV/AIDS.\n\nSometimes very old people acquire a pneumonia and die in a very few days.\n\nAntibiotics work best in healthy people.  But not everyone is saved.
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Auschwitz - facts\n\n\n In all, 1.1 million people died during the four and a half years of Auschwitz's existence; one million of them were Jewish men, women and children. \n\n\n\n Other groups of people who died included Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsy families, homosexuals, people with disabilities and prisoners of conscience or religious faith (including several hundred Jehovah's Witnesses). \n\n\n\n More people died in Auschwitz than the British and American losses of World War Two combined.\n\n\n\n About 60 million Reichmarks - equivalent to £125m today - was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\n Nazis at Auschwitz offered some non-Jewish female prisoners the option of 'light work'. As the women soon discovered, 'light work' meant prostitution. \n\n\n\n To lull new arrivals at Treblinka death camp into believing they were only in transit, plants were placed on the railway station and at the entrance to the gas chambers. \n\n\n\nThe train ramp was disguised to look like a regular railway station with signs, timetables and even a clock painted on the wall. \n\n\n\nA Star of David was placed above the entrance to the gas chamber and a sign was painted in Hebrew on a purple curtain covering the entrance to the gas chamber that said "This is the Gateway to God. Righteous men will pass through". \n\n\n\n A unit in Auschwitz where valuables snatched from incoming prisoners were kept was known as Canada, because Canada was thought to be a land of untold riches. \n\n\n\n Auschwitz guards had their own athletics team. The camp was like a small town, with its own staff canteen, cinema, theatre and grocery store. \n\n\n\n There were 170 female SS staff at Auschwitz, of whom the most infamous was Irma Grese, the 20-year-old daughter of a dairyman. \n\n\n\n Josef Mengele's scientific experiments at Auschwitz often involved studies of twins. If one twin died, he would immediately kill the other and carry out comparative autopsies. \n\n\n\n Denmark was the only Nazi-occupied country that managed to save 95% of its Jewish residents. Following a tip-off by a German diplomat, thousands of Jews were evacuated to neutral Sweden. \n\n\n\n Some Jewish prisoners secretly wrote eye-witness accounts of the atrocities of the gas chambers and hid them in bottles or metal containers buried in the ground. A number of these accounts were discovered after the war. \n\n\n\n Of a total of about 7,000 staff at Auschwitz, only 750 were ever punished. Many went on to build good careers, including one man who became head of human resources for a large German company. \n\n\n\n There are approximately 500 survivors of Nazi death camps or ghettos living in Britain today.\n\n\nand try this web site,\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/12_december/03/auschwitz_timeline.shtml
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don't waste time defending this proposition. the fact is that all wars have survivors, even nuclear war. I'd suggest that your essay should chronicle progression of the mass murder that commenced in 1938 and continued through August 1945, with the extermination of 35 - 50 million (no one knows exact casualty totals) people during WW II. Billions survived this catastrophe, and billions will survive the next one.  Nonsense aphorisms such as the one your essay is to explore seem sensible, but in fact serve no purpose other than to distract rational persons from viewing their world in terms of its history and likely - even if dark - future. good luck!
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Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, Dachau, & Triblinka are the ones that I can recall off the top of my head.  Go to any Holocaust site and I'm sure they will provide detailed information about concentration camps--and perhaps the many camps for Displaced People who were used as slave laborers too.
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most wound up spending time in the concentration camps before being put into the military to be slaughtered or captured as prisoners of war. some may have been part of the resistance groups that were active, but not effective in germany. others may have gotten out of germany before the war broke out and become involved with the allies.
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Jews weren't the only ones, there were plenty of others killed by the nazis in their quest for world domination and the perfect race.  But the jewish people were predominatly the ones that were victimized and had the largest numbers killed.  The why is simple, hatred of something they didn't understand and scapegoating a race of people just so they could have someone to blame for germanys ills.
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What was the reality about it???? Are you serious?!?! Millions upon millions of jews were systematically murdered by the Nazis- 6 million!!! Can you even fathom how many people that is? Many families were forced from their homes into ghettos where living conditions were grutesque and disgusting. Many families were torn apart, and children saw their parents for the last time as they marched off toward the crematoriums. Groups of Jews were taken to a desolate field, forced to dig a large hole, then were lined up in rows of 5- to then be shot by machine guns to fall into the grave that they dug for themselves!! Many times groups of 100 or more would be shot in this way. The people who were in the second row had to pick up the bodies of the people shot before them and push them into the hole, before they were then shot on the spot. So many Jews were humiliated and made to clean the streets with toothbrushes, or even sweep the streets with their hands after a storm. I hope that you don't deny the holocaust. Everything that happened was very real. I hope you take the time to research the holocaust and to read about some of the atrocities that have taken place from 1939-1945. (Some of these terrible things happened even before the war took place- and a lot of the discrimination was starting in Russia before the war "officially" began.)
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There are a lot of factors, war, overpopulation, genocide, mismangement, corroption, I'll tell you a story but i'll change the name and the country, it's one example of what causes world hunger. I had a friend who worked with an agency who went to this country to hand disperse food, when they arrived they had to bribe the soldiers and then bribe the local govenment head,  they then had to turn over the food to these people to a "storage" area in which they couldn't get to it for a month when they finally paid another bribe they found that it wasn't they same amount of food that they put in, so they had to take what little food and water to feed 5,000 people,  This political told them that these were not his people and that they should starve.  This is one story of many that she/he told me. Some times these governments are so corrupt and unstable they rather feed thier soldiers and themselves to keep what little they have.
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Are you asking in general what they did?  One thing is the Holocaust in which they killed over 6 million Jewish people, as well as political prisoners, gypsies, invalids, etc.  However, that really began after 1939.  Up until then, Hitler focused on labelling these people as scapegoats for why Germany fell so hard economically after WWI.  Besides the Holocaust, the Nazis improved the German economy and military, allowing them to be capable of invading and capturing so many countries during WWII.