Typhus

Central and Eastern Europe have over the centuries had problems with typhus. Wikipedia: "Epidemic typhus is found most frequently during times of war and privation. For example, typhus killed many thousands of prisoners in Nazi Germany concentration camps during World War II. Epidemic typhus (also called "camp fever", "jail fever", "hospital fever"and "louse-borne typhus") is so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters. The causative organism is Rickettsia prowazekii, transmitted by the human body louse. Epidemics occurred throughout Europe from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and occurred during the English Civil War, the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars. During Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, more French soldiers died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. Typhus was also common in prisons (and in crowded conditions where lice spread easily). Typhus epidemics killed inmates in the Nazi Germany concentration camps; infamous pictures of typhus victims' mass graves can be seen in footage shot at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Thousands of prisoners held in appalling conditions in Nazi concentration camps such Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen also died of typhus during World War II, including Anne Frank at the age of 15 and her sister Margot.. During World War II typhus struck the German army as it invaded Russia in 1941 " - end of quotes from Wikipedia. While the Americans began using DDT to control the spread of body lice and hence typhus, in the middle of WW2, the Germans still used three methods which were also previously used elsewhere: For groups at risk: (1) shaving body hair (2) showering (3) fumigation of clothing, using an insecticide called Zyklon B. We know that inmates of German concentration camps had hair removed and heads shaved, and were made to shower and that Zyklon B was used. All this is to be expected in a program to control epidemics, which Wikipedia and other sources confirm existed in the German camps. The existence of crematoria is also to be expected because of these epidemics. Challenge to the Holocaust Believers: Please give a rational and credible answer to the question "why did the Germans shave people's heads in the camps, if not to save their lives?"