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n. A death camp.
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The German extermination camps or death camps were designed and built by Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–45) to systematically kill millions of Jews, primarily by gassing, but also in mass executions and through extreme work under starvation conditions.
The idea of mass extermination with the use of stationary facilities built exclusively for that purpose was a result of earlier Nazi experimentation with the chemically manufactured poison gas during the secretive Action T4 euthanasia programme against Germans with mental and physical disabilities. The technology was adapted, expanded and applied in wartime to unsuspecting victims of many ethnic and national groups; the Jews however were the primary targets accounting for over 90 percent of the extermination camp death toll. This genocide of the Jewish people of Europe was the Third Reich's " Final Solution to the Jewish question". It is now collectively known as the Holocaust.
Extermination camps were also set up by the fascist Ustaše regime of the Independent State of Croatia allied with Germany, carrying out genocidal policy between 1941 and 1945 against Serbs, Jews, Roma and its political opponents.
Usage examples of "extermination camp".
The biggest extermination camp of all, Auschwitz, comes under Frankfurt.
The Nazis could have shipped the whole Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka or that other extermination camp they were just finishing when the Lizards came, the one they called Auschwitz.
He would learn later that it was another extermination camp, on Polish soil, on the order of Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Oswiecim, Chelmno.
Anielewicz did not think they would ever build an extermination camp of their own.
Mississippi, who came from Kielce in Poland and whose name nobody could pronounce, who had had a woman taken at the Oswiecim extermination camp, an eye taken by the bitter end of a hoist cable on the freighter Mikolaj Rej, and fingerprints taken by the San Diego cops when he tried to jump ship in '49.
It was an extermination camp but Broum found ways to stand aside from the stream of prisoners who entered and died within a week.
Out of the black horror of a Nazi extermination camp crawled a pale, twisted creature, warped in body, perhaps also in mind.
Mengel was speaking of Rudolf Franz Hoess, the commandant of the extermination camp at Auschwitz.
It occurred to me that the collection of spinal columns, the box with the eyes, the skins stretched over armatures came from some extermination camp.
Billy Pilgrim says he went to Dresden Germany, on the day after his morphine night in the British compound in the center of the extermination camp for Russian prisoners of war.