noun
- a concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or to which they have been sent to be executed.
noun
- a concentration camp in which the conditions are so brutal that few prisoners survive, or one to which prisoners are sent for execution
1944, in reference to the Nazis, probably translating German Todeslager; they also were known as extermination camps (German Vernichtungslager); historians usually count six of them: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chełmno, Bełżec, Majdanek, Sobibór, Treblinka.