What does this section show about the desperation prisoners began to feel regarding hunger? Would you consider this section an example of how the Nazis controlled, confined, or weakened the Jews?

Yes, it was an inhumane act to test the abilities of the individuals who were abused just because they belonged to a specific culture or religion.                

Explanation:

However,it was more of a religious and racial discrimination followed by a mass genocide of the Jews inside the region. As, these inhuman acts shows how the Nazis wanted the system to be and the way they wanted to control, confine and weaken the Jews was truly inhuman which lead the Jews not to bow down to any oppression faced by them instead some of them who were left behind migrated to other regions started creating there own communities across the globe.     There were large number of Jews being placed inside the camps and they were ill treated just to break them and were kept deprived of there basic rights just because they were Jews.