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OCR: Concentration camp inmates used the term museimann to describe a prisoner who was in the final stages of physicai and mental deterioration Museimaenner were people who had lost the desire to survive, and had only weeks or days remaining to them the eyes of quards and prisoners alike they were already gone death camps guards selected them for the gas chambers in other cam IPS they just aliowed them to die Other prisoners in the camps who feared the same fate for themselves, tended shun the muse Imaenner and reserve their support for people who could inspire hope and vitality in return. Also known as "the living dead, the muse Imaenner personified the unthinkable humiliation and hopelessness which the inmates of Nazi camps endured during World War IT physical Musel peopie aiready allowed mus ...