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==Starvation as a weapon==

==Starvation as a weapon==

"At its peak the [[Warsaw]] ghetto had 500,000 people — about 40 percent of the population of Warsaw — crowded into a space comprising less than 5 percent of the area of the city. A meeting was held in [[Germany]] by top [[Gestapo]] officials, including [[Adolph Eichmann]]. This meeting was attended by some of the leading [[Nazi]] physicians. They had calculated that if the inhabitants of the ghetto received no more than 800 [[calory|calories]] of low-[[protein]] food per day, the entire population would be dead in nine months — a simple solution for the destruction of the [[Jew]]s in Nazi-occupied [[Poland]]. Thus hunger and starvation were universal throughout the ghetto.  

"At its peak the [[Warsaw]] ghetto had 500,000 people — about 40 percent of the population of Warsaw — crowded into a space comprising less than 5 percent of the area of the city. A meeting was held in [[Germany]] by top [[Gestapo]] officials, including [[Adolph Eichmann]]. This meeting was attended by some of the leading [[Nazi]] physicians. They had calculated that if the inhabitants of the ghetto received no more than 800 [[calorie|calories]] of low-[[protein]] food per day, the entire population would be dead in nine months — a simple solution for the destruction of the [[Jew]]s in Nazi-occupied [[Poland]]. Thus hunger and starvation were universal throughout the ghetto.  

However, the Nazis had not counted on the ingenuity of the inhabitants. Smuggling was rampant by organized groups, often containing children. Although many things were smuggled in, including [[gun|arms]], the most important was food. Finally, the Nazis gave up the idea of starving the population to death [deciding it] would take too long. Instead they instituted the [[Final Solution]] and deported most of the population to the [[Conentration camp|death camps]]. At the end an uprising broke out and, to the surprise of the world, lasted many weeks. In the end the Nazis destroyed the ghetto, leveling the buildings to the ground and killing the few survivors."<ref>Winick, Myron (Williams Professor Emeritus of Nutrition) 2005 [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/epic/pdf/winick_lecture_2005.pdf Hunger Disease: Studies by the Jewish Physicians in the Warsaw Ghetto, Their Historical Importance and Their Relevance Today'']. Columbia University in the City of New York. Accessed April 2008.</ref>

However, the Nazis had not counted on the ingenuity of the inhabitants. Smuggling was rampant by organized groups, often containing children. Although many things were smuggled in, including [[gun|arms]], the most important was food. Finally, the Nazis gave up the idea of starving the population to death [deciding it] would take too long. Instead they instituted the [[Final Solution]] and deported most of the population to the [[Conentration camp|death camps]]. At the end an uprising broke out and, to the surprise of the world, lasted many weeks. In the end the Nazis destroyed the ghetto, leveling the buildings to the ground and killing the few survivors."<ref>Winick, Myron (Williams Professor Emeritus of Nutrition) 2005 [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/epic/pdf/winick_lecture_2005.pdf Hunger Disease: Studies by the Jewish Physicians in the Warsaw Ghetto, Their Historical Importance and Their Relevance Today'']. Columbia University in the City of New York. Accessed April 2008.</ref>