Jews were systematically impoverished, starved and murdered. The dogs are overfed and overworked, then are starved when food runs low. They suffer greatly as they are starved and struggle to survive. They were eventually starved out and many were killed. Around a quarter of the population starved to death in the ensuing famine. Many families starved or lost their homes. Severe malnutrition was common and 18,000 people starved to death. These were not men who had been starved. Buck is shipped to Seattle where he is confined in a crate, starved, and ill-treated. Thousands of people starved to death every day as the war progressed. By 1959, tens of millions of people had starved to death. Aella orders Ragnar bound and thrown into a pit filled with starved wolves. He might have been starved to death. These men had either starved to death or died from disease. Ye Mingchen was captured and exiled to Calcutta, India, where he starved himself to death.