Majdanek concentration camp
The term spread from Auschwitz-Birkenau to other concentration camps. Its equivalent in the Majdanek concentration camp was "Gamel" (derived from German "gammeln" - colloquial for "rotting") and in the Stutthof concentration camp, "Krypel" (derived from German "Krüppel", "cripple"). When prisoners reached this emaciated condition, they were selected by camp doctors and murdered by gas, bullet or various other methods.