Were there ever any accounts of cannibalism amongst people in the death and concentration camps in WWII?
My father-in-law was captured by the Russians just at the end of the battle of Stalingrad, and imprisoned from February of 1943 until 1953. In the first year of imprisonment, he and his fellow POWs were not given food by their captors. They ate every rat, bug and blade of grass within the prison camp, even ate their shoes and belts and holsters. He told me that there were many instances where men were so driven by hunger that they did resort to cannibalism, however denied that he ever did. In 1944, under pressure from the United States and the British, the Soviets began to provide minimal amounts of food to be given to the prisoners, but nothing was given to heat their barracks during the winter. Since the rations were determined by the number of men that managed to drag themselves to a long central table that extended the length of the barrack, where they were counted at dawn of each day, the prisoners began to drag the dead to the table before dawn and sit them on the benches where t
