deplorable in the paragraph 5 appears to hold a meaning as horrible.
Option A
Step-by-step explanation:
The word deplorable in the paragraph represents horrible on the account of the use of the word in the paragraph to dictate the terror of the life ending situation in which the prisoners were kept by the Germans when taken captives.
The Germans targeted the civilians of Polish and Soviet to die in hunger and forced to labor till death, these terrifying captivity was horrible than the death by killing or by being murdered. The killing being demonstrated as easy and peaceful among the forced deplorable death given by Germans.