concentration camp vs. death camp

concentration camp

[ kon-suhn-trey-shuhn kamp ]show ipa

noun

1. a guarded compound for the mass detention without hearings or the imprisonment without trial of civilians, as refugees, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc.
2. a Nazi prison camp or death camp prior to and during World War II.

death camp

noun

1. a concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or to which they have been sent to be executed.