death camp

Example Sentences

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Those aspirations were made more urgent in the early 1940s by revelations of the Nazi death camps.

From The Wall Street Journal

Evangelicals view Israel through the prism of a celebrated tradition of Christians who opposed the Nazis and rescued Jews from Hitler’s death camps.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the same time, the concentration camp is a modern global phenomenon with its own ironic history, which long precedes the Nazi death camps.

From Salon

Other camps further east, like the death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz, had either been destroyed by the Germans to hide their crimes in the face of Soviet advances or emptied of their inmates.

From BBC

Ernest Salomon of Santa Barbara, almost 90, said he and some of his immediate family escaped German death camps while other relatives perished.

From Los Angeles Times