death camp
nounDefinition of death camp
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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One more fact: The liberation of the death camps, an event that coalesced with the end of the war, took place in 1945—a mere 74 years ago. — Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, "The Largest U.S. Exhibit Ever About the Holocaust Opens in Downtown Manhattan," 27 July 2019 One such revelation took place three days prior to the Germans’ surrender, when U.S. Army soldiers stumbled upon the Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, a sub-camp of the death camp Mauthausen. — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, "'We Weren't Prepared for This.' Inside the Accidental Liberation of a Concentration Camp," 26 Jan. 2018 Critics say the term applies only to the Nazi death camps where millions of Jews were killed. — Molly Hennessy-fiske, latimes.com, "Japanese internment camp survivors protest Ft. Sill migrant detention center," 22 June 2019 The 20th century was, after all, also the century of the mechanized death of the Nazi death camps and of the advanced rocketry Germany employed to attack Great Britain. — David Shribman, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Column One: 50 years after Apollo 11, the moon’s allure still resonates," 11 July 2019 As the students stepped inside a cattle car used to transport Jews to the death camp, their mouths began to open wide as if to ask, What... — Diane Cole, WSJ, "‘The Unwanted’ Review: One Small Town in Germany," 12 Apr. 2019 As with photographs of cruelty from the Nazi ghettos and concentration camps, and from the Khmer Rouge’s S-21 death camp, bewildering questions arise: Why were these photographs taken? — Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, "Syria’s Torture Photos: Witness to Atrocity," 9 Feb. 2019 This trip involved tours of the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps and a Shabbat dinner where seven couples proposed to each other — and two men had a different proposal for Goldstein. — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Poway’s Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein: a brush with death leads to a new life," 7 July 2019 For many critics, using the phrase today dilutes the horrors of Nazi concentration and death camps where millions of Jews were killed. — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, "For Japanese Americans, debate over what counts as a ‘concentration camp’ is familiar," 20 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'death camp.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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