death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Letter bombs One of Israeli intelligence’s early manhunts focused on a mastermind of the Holocaust, the Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, who sent millions of Jews to death camps.
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Dan De Luce, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2024
On the hills above Goethe’s Weimer sits the Buchenwald concentration camp; in Erfurt, Topf & Sons manufactured ovens and gas-chamber-ventilation systems for the death camps.
—Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
In 1945, Robert Sherman was one of the first American soldiers to enter Dachau, the brutal Nazi death camp.
—Anita Gates, New York Times, 26 May 2024
Belsen was not a death camp, but tens of thousands of people died anyway.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
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Dan De Luce, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2024
On the hills above Goethe’s Weimer sits the Buchenwald concentration camp; in Erfurt, Topf & Sons manufactured ovens and gas-chamber-ventilation systems for the death camps.
—Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
In 1945, Robert Sherman was one of the first American soldiers to enter Dachau, the brutal Nazi death camp.
—Anita Gates, New York Times, 26 May 2024
Belsen was not a death camp, but tens of thousands of people died anyway.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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