concentration camp
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Definition that contains concentration camp
- ss special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
- auschwitz a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II
- eichmann Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)
- dachau a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany
- buchenwald a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany
- belsen a Nazi concentration camp for Jews created in northwestern Germany during World War II
- death camp a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed
- organophosphate nerve agent any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds
- elie wiesel United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928)
- schutzstaffel special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps