death camp
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8.4
- noun
- /dɛθ kæmp/
- NSFW
:
campo de exterminio
- By the end of 1941, the first death camp, situated at Chelmno, a small village in German-occupied Poland, was opened.
- Nazi death camp
- Auschwitz death camp
- Jews in the death camps
And he's looking at at, you know, how how did the Nazi death camps come about?
- And he's looking at at, you know, how how did the Nazi death camps come about?
- Maidonic and Auschwitz were concentration camps and death camps.
- And she was talking about her parents were in the death camps in Germany and she said some people didn't die and some people lived.
- Her mother was my partner, and during the genocide, her mother rescued her from a death camp where a massacre just taken place of the Tutsi tribe.
- Viktor Frankel, who's this amazing psychologist who was a Holocaust survivor and he wrote Man's Search for Meaning, a book after he survived the death camps.
- How would you compare wearing masks to putting minorities into death camps?
- So in in some crazy world, you could theoretically say I knew I didn't know anything about the death camps.
Examples
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Throughout Europe, the Germans deported gypsies to the death camps.
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I have since visited a number of other death camps and Holocaust sites, including Auschwitz.
Academic text (2014) -
It's not a museum, it's a death camp.
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You ever seen a death camp, Doctor?
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How could an entire country be turned into a death camp with one in five people never returning?
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We went to the death camps.
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But Auschwitz is a death camp.
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There were terrible rumors that the Nazis had set up death camps where Jews were being killed in gas chambers.
Academic text (2011) -
The party of seventeen visited Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, and several death camp sites in between.
Academic text (2015) -
The program featured refugees and child escapees from the death camp, who described their experiences in detail.
Synonyms
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8.8
A Nazi camp in Poland where millions of Jews and others were kept and killed during World War II
3
6.8
A place or situation where people are kept under very harsh, crowded, and controlled conditions
A camp in southwest Poland where Nazis killed many people, mostly Jewish people, during World War II
How Deadly
- NSFW
16
8.4
- Offensive
3
6.8
26
5.3
- UK
36
4.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines the clearly understood nouns 'death' (end of life) and 'camp' (a place where people stay), so a learner who knows both words will readily infer it means a camp associated with death or where people die. Although historically it refers specifically to Nazi extermination/concentration camps, the meaning is directly compositional and therefore transparent to B1 learners who know the constituent words.
Etymology
The noun death camp comes from the terrible camps the Nazis set up in World War II, where people were sent and many did not leave alive. The name links death and camp: it means a place where prisoners were 'killed' or were likely to 'die'.