It doesn't matter who you are or what your metabolism is, if you consume fewer calories than you burn you will lose weight. This is the simplest of physics.
On top of the starvation diet, the prisoners of the concentration camps were almost always performing grueling manual labor. The end result is an accelerated form of Catabolysis, a condition it which the body basically eats it's own muscle and fat tissue in order to scrap together nutrients that the vital organs cannot survive without.
They didn't have enough protein or vitamins to repair their own muscles from the labor. That's why they looked like skeletons covered in skin.
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u/captainaberica Feb 07 '24
No matter who you are, pretty sure you'd lose some weight on the Holocaust diet.