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death camp

noun

a concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or to which they have been sent to be executed.

death camp

a concentration camp in which the conditions are so brutal that few prisoners survive, or one to which prisoners are sent for execution

First recorded in 1940–45

Unwittingly, the Ukrainian-born, German POW and death camp guard reversed over 140 years of German jurisprudence.

Update: The White House has apologized for the "Polish death camp" reference.

He then referenced, in his phrase, "a Polish death camp"—as if Auschwitz were a Polish project.

For Obama to refer to a "Polish death camp" is just ghastly.

Few organizations have been more vocal against the "Polish death camp" slur than the Anti-Defamation League.

From a high sandy crest I turned a farewell glance at the death camp.

No word came of Woodhull, or of two others who could not be identified as among the victims at the death camp.

I had changed my clothes at the death camp that I might have a neat clean shroud if I died.

He took the path he had previously traversed, and came upon the Death Camp late in the afternoon.

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