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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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When Auschwitz-Birkenau began functioning as an extermination camp in early 1942, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were killed here without being registered.
5 million children - were gathered from across Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe and transported on the Reichsbahn to extermination camps.
Thousands of Warsaw ghetto residents died in the fighting in April and May 1943, about 7,000 were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp to be gassed, and the rest of the 40,000 inhabitants were sent to Nazi concentration and forced labor camps.
 
 
 
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