Christ,
I was reading about how when they reached Belsen the first few troops gave soem food to the inmates. Their systems were so badly abused that they died after eating even small amounts. Luckily there was a doctor present who had dealt with famine victims before and made up this concoction that made the medics physically sick to prepare (it smelt awful, by all accounts), but saved most of the remaining inmates.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sun 3 Jun 2012, 0:48, Reply)