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death camp
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death camp
n.
A concentration camp in which a large portion of the inmates are systematically put to death, are worked to death, or die from mistreatment.

death camp
n
(Sociology) 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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Noun1.death camp - a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killeddeath camp - a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed
concentration camp, stockade - a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)


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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak paid a private visit to the World War II-era Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps Thursday, the Auschwitz museum said.
He regained his citizenship, but the US Justice Department refilled its case against him in 1999, arguing he had worked for the Nazis as a guard at three other death camps.
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