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Typhus epidemics killed those confined to POW camps, ghettos, and Nazi concentration camps who were held in unhygienic conditions. Pictures of mass graves including people who died from typhus can be seen in footage shot at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- Typhus fever
- Bacterial infection spread by parasites
- Fever, headache, rash
- Meningoencephalitis
Dec 1, 2005 · Perhaps only pictures can capture the essence of Nazi medical atrocities; but pictures also limit these atrocities, which are almost too numerous to catalog. The primary purpose of the book, subtitled Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and Typhus, is to explain how epidemic typhus served in the extermination of Jews.
- Evelyne Shuster
- 10.1172/JCI27260
- 2005
- J Clin Invest. 2005 Dec 1; 115(12): 3305.
Jul 24, 2020 · More specifically, there was a fanatical fear of typhus spreading to the German people and its army, given its previous impact as the cause of 5 million deaths after WWI. This was the pretense given by the Germans for the relocation of Jewish victims en masse into isolated closed ghettos and camps in wartime Europe (10–14). However, the same ...
- Lewi Stone, Lewi Stone, Daihai He, Stephan Lehnstaedt, Yael Artzy-Randrup
- 2020
Ravensbrück was a concentration camp built by the Nazis to imprison and exploit female prisoners in the Third Reich, often through forced labour. The construction of Ravensbrück began in November 1938. The camp was located on the edge of a small village, approximately fifty miles outside of Berlin in north-east Germany, and surrounded by a ...
Sep 21, 2014 · During the war, Fleck was condemned to concentration camps, where Nazi physicians tasked him with producing a typhus vaccine — using humans rather than lice as reservoirs.
Typhus. A bacterial disease spread by mites, fleas and lice. Typhus is common in areas with poor sanitation. Symptoms include: fever, muscle ache, fast breathing, stomach pain, vomiting and a spotted rash.
Aug 6, 2020 · Post-Liberation Battles: Surviving Typhus. By Rebecca Voisich. Thursday, August 6, 2020• From the Collection. Share. During the Holocaust, unsanitary living conditions were a major issue that individuals faced in the ghettos, concentration camps, and displaced persons camps.
