Muzulman
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Muzulman (lit. Muslim; also Gamel and Krypel) was a term used by the prisoners of German World War II concentration camps for the prisoners suffering from extreme stages of starvation, dubbed hunger disease by the survivors. The term itself was a loan word from the Polish language term Muzułmanin, a standard noun for Muslim people, and was most probably coined because people in the final stages of muzulmanisation were almost unable to move and spent much of their time cringing in a position similar to the one adopted by Muslim people during their prayers. The term spread from Auschwitz-Birkenau to other places of detention; its equivalent in Majdanek concentration camp was Gamel (of unknown provenance) and in Stutthof concentration camp krypel (derived from German Krüppel "gimp").
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