death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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The Nazi use of music in the death camps has many explanations.
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Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
And as the cities burned, the prisons were transformed into death camps.
—Robin Yassin-Kassab, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
During World War II, Husseini became a Nazi collaborator, broadcasting propaganda into the Arab world, touring death camps with his friend Heinrich Himmler, recruiting SS divisions, and hatching a plot to poison Tel Aviv’s water supply.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Near the end of the war, his father, Sam, emerged from hiding in a Polish forest and searched for his wife, Esther, in the Lodz Ghetto but learned she had been sent to the Chelmno death camp.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
And as the cities burned, the prisons were transformed into death camps.
—Robin Yassin-Kassab, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
During World War II, Husseini became a Nazi collaborator, broadcasting propaganda into the Arab world, touring death camps with his friend Heinrich Himmler, recruiting SS divisions, and hatching a plot to poison Tel Aviv’s water supply.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Near the end of the war, his father, Sam, emerged from hiding in a Polish forest and searched for his wife, Esther, in the Lodz Ghetto but learned she had been sent to the Chelmno death camp.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2025
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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