death camp

noun

: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed

Examples of death camp in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With the film telling the real-life story of German SS officer Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who raised their children in a farmhouse next door to the Nazi death camp, the horrifying sounds heard from across the wall provide much of the film’s chilling impact. Alex Ritman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024 His unit was part of the liberation of the Dachau death camp. Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024 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. 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 See all Example Sentences for death camp 

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Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of death camp was in 1944

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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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