concentration and death camps — camps where political prisoners and enemies are confined, camps where the Nazis systematically confined and exterminated millions of Jews and other minority groups during World War II … English contemporary dictionary
CAMPS — (Concentration and Extermination). The English language term concentration camp is commonly used to describe a wide number of places of internment created by Nazi Germany, which served a variety of functions and were called by different names:… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
DEATH MARCHES — DEATH MARCHES, name given by prison inmates and retained by historians to the forced evacuations on foot of concentration and slave labor camps in the winter of 1944–45. With the onset of winter and Allied armies closing in on the Nazi… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
death camp — death camps N COUNT A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed … English dictionary
death camp — noun a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed • Hypernyms: ↑concentration camp, ↑stockade * * * noun : a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed * * * a concentration camp in… … Useful english dictionary
Death marches — As the Third Reich faced defeat at the hands of the Allies, the Germans attempted to hide all evidence of the murder of the Jews and other victims. Toward this end, they dismantled the death camps and forced surviving inmates to march from… … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
death camp — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms death camp : singular death camp plural death camps a concentration camp in which prisoners die or are killed … English dictionary
Camps for Russian prisoners and internees in Poland (1919–1924) — Camps for Russian prisoners and internees in Poland that existed during 1919 1924 housed two main categories of detainees: *personnel of the Imperial Russian Army, and Russian civilians, captured by Germany during World War I; and *Soviet… … Wikipedia
Death Mills — Données clés Titre original Death Mills Réalisation Billy Wilder Sociétés de production U.S. Army Signal Corps Pays d’origine … Wikipédia en Français
Death Mills — Directed by Billy Wilder Hanuš Burger Written by Hanuš Burger Editing by Billy Wilder (supervisor) Distributed by … Wikipedia
