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[wakerife]

The Nazis kept records the survival rate of concentration camp inmates during the war. Those inmates that made a solid ritual of personal hygiene, sneaking five-ten minutes naps, and conversed pleasantly while eating tended to naturally survive longer than inmates that did not (make a strict habit of these “basics”). As a way of testing their

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[eve_l_incarnata]

Good post! I was just reading how the Nazis determined that the minimum nutritional requirement to sustain life in camp inmates at Treblinka was 900 calories a day.

900 CALORIES?!

[wakerife]

What blows me away is that not only is 900 calories less than recommended for most weightloss programs, most of the inmates were forced to work 16 hours a day, seven days per week, hard labor.

It is disheartening to think of what people are capable of doing to one another!