Death Statistics

After only two months of Buchenwald being opened in 1945, many people had already died due to a typhus epidemic. Typhus is spread by lice, which is why Daniel got it in Daniel's Story. The Nazis refused to use DDT, the insecticide used to subside the amount of lice. Instead, they used Zyklon-B, a poison gas, which was coincidentally also used in the gas chambers in Poland.