My great-uncle was a POW in Germany, and they lived in borderline starvation. He was "lucky" (in that he got a bit more food) to be on a detail that wheeled in carts dead POWs to their final destination. When he was liberated, he weighed 85 lbs. He said that after their liberation, just down the road was a warehouse - stocked to the ceiling with Red Cross packages that the POWs never received. This is from his journal, only allowed to be released to family after his death because he wanted to record his experiences but not have to relive them with discussions. Can't speak for the Jewish prisoners, but nothing the Nazis did would surprise me, based on - at least - my uncle's accounts.
My great-uncle was a POW in Germany, and they lived in borderline starvation. He was "lucky" (in that he got a bit more food) to be on a detail that wheeled in carts dead POWs to their final destination. When he was liberated, he weighed 85 lbs. He said that after their liberation, just down the road was a warehouse - stocked to the ceiling with Red Cross packages that the POWs never received. This is from his journal, only allowed to be released to family after his death because he wanted to record his experiences but not have to relive them with discussions. Can't speak for the Jewish prisoners, but nothing the Nazis did would surprise me, based on - at least - my uncle's accounts.