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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 campdeath 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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Instead, he was taken by truck to the Monowitz camp, a special labor camp within the sprawling Auschwitz system of death camps.
The book was ``Night,'' Elie Wiesel's account of the Nazi Holocaust, based on his own experiences in the death camps where his parents and little sister died.
 
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