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During World War II, many German POWs after the loss at Stalingrad died of typhus. 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. [49]
Castration of homosexual men was also commonly performed in Nazi Germany. [48] This began with "voluntary" castrations, but was later performed in concentration camps and prisons. It was believed castration, which reduces male sex drive, would prevent men from being "infected" with homosexuality by gay men.
Epidemic typhus, also known as louse-borne typhus, is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters where civil life is disrupted. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Epidemic typhus is spread to people through contact with infected body lice , in contrast to endemic typhus which is usually transmitted by fleas .
It is estimated that 4,000 to 5,000 prisoners died while in the camp. During the winter of 1941/42 a typhus epidemic killed around 2,000-2,500 Soviets, whose mortality rate was much higher than that of other nations. Non-Soviet dead were buried with military honours in individual graves at the camp cemetery, while Soviets were buried ...
Unit 1855 was a unit for human experimentation that belonged to the central Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the North China Army of the Imperial Japanese Army, stationed in Beijing between 1938 and 1945. Unit 1855 was established by the North China Army in 1938. [1]
Documented figures show that 1,855 prisoners lost their lives at Zgoda camp from February until November 1945. Most died during the typhus epidemic, that reached its highest death toll in August, [6] claiming 1,600 victims. [9] No medical help was offered to prisoners, and no action taken, until the epidemic spread across the entire camp.
According to incomplete official statistics from the period, 1,535 people died at COP Jaworzno between 1945 and 1947. 972 of these prisoners died of a typhus epidemic in the overcrowded camp out of at least 6,140 who died during this period in all camps and prisons in Poland. Contemporary figures are much higher.
When a typhus epidemic began in the women's camp, Mengele cleared one block of six hundred Jewish women and sent them to be killed in the gas chambers. The building was then cleaned and disinfected and the occupants of a neighboring block were bathed, de–loused, and given new clothing before being moved into the clean block.