Definition of death camp
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Sitting in the darkness watching them, the commissar (Nonna Mordyukova) has a vision: a flash-forward of Jews, wearing Nazi-era stars on their clothes, marching to a death camp.
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Normally, the idea of a wedding between prisoners in a death camp would sound depressing, not uplifting.
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Their short period on the run would be followed by the longer nightmare of death camp.
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Earlier this month, a rap band that included cynical references about the Auschwitz death camp in its lyrics won the Echo award, Germany's most important music prize, drawing strong criticism from other artists and government officials.
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The album, which has sold more than 200,000 copies, includes lyrics that make degrading references to the Holocaust and the Auschwitz death camp.
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Notoriously, most people may know that the Nazis justified the death camps on the false grounds that Jews and Gypsies were genetically inferior.
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The camp, which was operated by the pro-German Vichy government before the Germans directly occupied that part of France, had miserable conditions and shipped prisoners to Nazi death camps.
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Though Tabori was able to flee the Nazis himself, his father and other family members were killed in the Auschwitz death camp.
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First Known Use of death camp
1944
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Definition of death camp for English Language Learners
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: a place where large numbers of prisoners are taken to be killed during a war : a concentration camp where many people are killed
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