I disagree. If what you say was true there would have been AT LEAST a few fat people in the concentration camp photos. There weren’t, as I recall.
“I disagree. If what you say was true there would have been AT LEAST a few fat people in the concentration camp photos. There weren’t, as I recall.”
You have made quite a number of false assumptions, and some of the reasons are:
1. Diabetes was far less prevalent in the populations in the Second World War, so the percentage of diabetics in the concentration camp populations were much less when compared to today’s percentages in the general population.
2. Those persons who presented symptoms of diabetes such as the obese stomach in the concentration camp populations were typically exterminated upon on arrival or soon after arrival.
3. Those persons who had this form of diabetes and was not yet presenting the symptoms, such as the obese stomach, did not live long enough to present symptoms of the disease.
4. This diabetes destroys the effectiveness of the immune system, so a person who had this diabetes and escaped immediate extermination would soon die of viral and bacterial infections months and years before reaching the extreme stages of starvation seen in the concentration camp photographs.
5. There are many photographs from these concentration camps which may have depicted inmates in the loose-fitting striped uniforms who may have had obese stomachs at the time the photograph was taken. In other words, before the person was starved and worked into the extreme emaciated conditions we saw in other photographs.