Word: lice
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...louse feeds on human blood and abhors soap. But where there is no cleansing disturbance the louse flourishes&151;the female easily produces over 100 mature offspring in two months. Typhus epidemics begin when lice suck up typhus germs with the blood of infected human beings, carry the germs to others and infect them. The lice themselves eventually die of the disease they carry&151;after they have spread it among...
...Warsaw ghetto, crammed with Jews by Nazi command, was said to be a hell of typhus. Elsewhere in Poland the Nazis were capitalizing on the disease with anti-Semitic posters. One, picturing a gigantic louse and a horribly caricatured Jewish face, was lettered simply JEWS&151;LICE&151;SPOTTED TYPHUS. At the same time the Nazis were said to be pressing into service all available Jewish doctors...
Germany's subversive underground radio reported that the disease had spread west ward as far as Berlin. The British radio told of a Nazi questionnaire sent to directors of Berlin shelters for foreign workers. In part it read: "Are there vermin in the camp, particularly lice? Who last exterminated lice and when?" British reports also said that normal travel between Germany and the eastern occupied zones had been suspended. Alarmed by news that typhus was also increasing in Spain and North Africa, even the British Government called medical conferences...
Blond Aryans with the louse complex were threatened by their blood brothers last week. Typhus was spreading through Poland to the Baltic States. Most of it was spotted typhus, carried by lice. German officials, settlers and soldiers were warned to avoid all contact with Polish "natives." Schools were closed in at least one town, Krakivsk Visty, Poland...
Churches were closed in Kaunas and Vilna, markets suspended throughout Lithuania. Tass, Soviet News Agency, claimed a captured German medical report said that "100% of our soldiers (in one battalion) are more or less covered with lice" - not an incredible statement to men who remember World...