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THIRTY POINTS!!!! PLEASE HELP ME THIS IS FOR MY MIDTERM!! How is the Muslim practice of kneeling over in prayer related to the term Muselmanner?

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The term Musselmanner refers to prisoners in Nazi camps that were dying of starvation and exhaustion. The term comes from the German word for Muslim, "Muselman". According to scholars, the term may have originated from the Muselmanns' inability to stand due to a combination of exhaustion and starvation-induced muscle atrophy in their legs, which forced them to spend a lot of time lying down and may have created up images of the Muslim prostration during prayer, known as Sujud.

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