Mussulman
I recall reading several books about Auschwitz and other camps many years ago and being puzzled by the fact that some inmates, the weakest and nearest to the brink of starvation, were known as...
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I remember reading in a survivors account ( I think it was Primo Levi but I havent got access to my library today and cant check this) that it referred to newsreels of famine in Asia which had been...
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This sense is in the OED3 and seems restricted to the slang of Nazi camps. The dictionary does not venture an explanation for this usage, but there is this citation:1982 T. KENEALLY Schindler's Ark...
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The reference can be found in the diaries of Johann Paul Kremer, a physician and professor of anatomy who replaced a doctor at Auschwitz for a few months in 1942. Since he testified and was convicted...
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I read about this term in Viktor Frankl's memoir "From Death Camp to Existentialism". You will find several references in Google, including some in German, under "muselmann" -- a spelling that is...
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