The camp term Muselmann names absolute subjection and resists translation

Evidence

One might want to speak here of an exception-an extreme case-that ruled or governed an entire discourse long before World War II and continued to do so during and most disturbingly, perhaps, after, and to this very day. That single word-but there are others-is the one word I have been trying to follow here by tracing something like a theologico-political history of absolute subjection. It is a word that, in English, remains insistently, if inconsistently untranslated and instead transliterated. That word is Muselmann-in the plural, Muse/manner, Muslims. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 680

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Muselmann as the camp-language word for the ‘Muslim,’ a term for prisoners in absolute subjection, untranslated in English.
• QUESTION: Why did camp prisoners or SS use a religious/Muslim term for the living dead? The etymology and the why are worth chasing.