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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Muselmann was a derogatory term used among inmates of World War II Nazi concentration camps to refer to those suffering from a combination of starvation (known also as hunger disease ) and exhaustion and who did not maintain basic standards of physical hygiene. The Muselmann inmates exhibited severe emaciation and physical weakness, an apathetic listlessness regarding their own fate, and unresponsiveness to their surroundings.Some scholars argue that the term possibly comes from the Muselmann's inability to stand for any time due to the loss of leg muscle, thus spending much of the time in a prone position, recalling the position of the Mussulman (Muslim) during prayers.The term spread from Auschwitz-Birkenau to other concentration camps. Its equivalent in the Majdanek concentration camp was Gamel (derived from German gammeln - colloquial for rotting ) and in the Stutthof concentration camp, Krypel (derived from German Kruppel, cripple ).

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