Was (wer) ist "Polish death camp" controversy - definition
"Polish death camp" controversy
![[[Czesława Kwoka]], a Polish Catholic girl, 14 when she was murdered by the Nazi Germans at Auschwitz. 230,000 children, most of them Jewish, were murdered in the German camp.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Czeslawa-Kwoka2.jpg?width=200 "[[Czesława Kwoka]], a Polish Catholic girl, 14 when she was murdered by the Nazi Germans at Auschwitz. 230,000 children, most of them Jewish, were murdered in the German camp.")
![Poles publicly hanged by the Germans for helping Jews in hiding, [[Przemyśl]], 6 September 1943](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michal Kruk 1943 execution(2).jpg?width=200 "Poles publicly hanged by the Germans for helping Jews in hiding, [[Przemyśl]], 6 September 1943")
TERM IN REFERENCE TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS BUILT AND RUN BY NAZI GERMANY IN POLAND
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The terms "Polish death camp" and "Polish concentration camp" have been controversial as applied to the concentration camps and extermination camps established by Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland. The terms have been widely characterized as misnomers.
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![March of new arrivals along the SS barracks at Birkenau toward the gas chambers near crematoria II and III, 27 May 1944. (Photograph from the [[Auschwitz Album]])](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Birkenau a group of Jews walking towards the gas chambers and crematoria.jpg?width=200 "March of new arrivals along the SS barracks at Birkenau toward the gas chambers near crematoria II and III, 27 May 1944. (Photograph from the [[Auschwitz Album]])")
![Sobibór]] in November 1943](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv Bild 183-C0509-0049-006, KZ Treblinka, Wehrmacht-Frachtbrief.jpg?width=200 "Sobibór]] in November 1943")
![Jewish children during deportation to the [[Chełmno extermination camp]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Children headed for deportation.JPG?width=200 "Jewish children during deportation to the [[Chełmno extermination camp]]")
![Sonderkommando 1005}} slave laborers stand next to a bone crushing machine at the [[Janowska concentration camp]] (photo taken in August 1944, after camp's liberation)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jewish prisoners forced to work for a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp.jpg?width=200 "Sonderkommando 1005}} slave laborers stand next to a bone crushing machine at the [[Janowska concentration camp]] (photo taken in August 1944, after camp's liberation)")
![Carpathian Ruthenian Jews arrive at Auschwitz–Birkenau, May 1944. Without being registered to the camp system, most were killed in gas chambers hours after arriving. (Photograph from the [[Auschwitz Album]])](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/May 1944 - Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau.jpg?width=200 "Carpathian Ruthenian Jews arrive at Auschwitz–Birkenau, May 1944. Without being registered to the camp system, most were killed in gas chambers hours after arriving. (Photograph from the [[Auschwitz Album]])")
NAZI DEATH CAMPS ESTABLISHED DURING WORLD WAR II TO PRIMARILY MURDER JEWS
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¦ noun a prison camp for political prisoners or prisoners of war in which many die.
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NAZI DEATH CAMPS ESTABLISHED DURING WORLD WAR II TO PRIMARILY MURDER JEWS
Death factory; Death camp; Extermination camps; Death camps; Nazi death camp; Vernichtungslager; Nazi extermination camp; Nazi extermination camps; Extermination camps in the Holocaust; Nazi prison; Nazi death camps; Extermination Camps; Deathcamp; Death camps of Nazi Germany; Extermination Camp; Nazi prisons; Nazi-German death camp; Nazi-German Extermination camp; Nazi German extermination camp; German extermination camps; Killing centers; Nazi deathcamp; Death factories; German death camps; Todeslager
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A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
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