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death camp

noun

a concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or to which they have been sent to be executed.

death camp

noun

a concentration camp in which the conditions are so brutal that few prisoners survive, or one to which prisoners are sent for execution

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Word History and Origins

Origin of death camp¹

First recorded in 1940–45

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concentration camp vs. death camp

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Ernest Salomon of Santa Barbara, almost 90, said he and some of his immediate family escaped German death camps while other relatives perished.

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This was one of six death camps they built in occupied Poland in 1942, and it was by far the biggest.

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"Treblinka-2 was a death camp where a large number of people were killed in gas chambers," she says, without specifying that most of the victims had been Jews.

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Birkenau was to become the biggest of six Nazi death camps.

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Later, the scene will move to the death camp at Birkenau, known as Auschwitz II.

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death camass death cap

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