deathcampとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /dɛθ kæmp/, [dɛθ kʰɛəːmp]

名詞

death camp (plural death camps)

1. A camp destined to cause the death of its inmates.
   1. Such a camp built during the Holocaust by the Nazis to kill mainly Jews, generally by means of gassing.
2. A prison camp in which a large number of prisoners die, ascribed to various reasion such as starvation, disease, brutality, and neglect, but not necessarily thought to be intentional.
   • 2004, Jeffrey F. Addicott, Terrorism Law: The Rule of Law and the War on Terror, 2nd edition, page 117:

     Included in this figure, since the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, are over 250,000 boat people and 250,000 other civilians who were either ruthlessly murdered outright or who perished in communist death camps set up to "re-educate" non-communists.

   • 2007, John P. C. Matthews, Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, page 618:

     Three years after Stalin's death, with ghostly figures returning to Moscow and Leningrad from Stalin's death camps, the leaders in the Kremlin agreed that Stalin's ghost had to be laid to rest if they were to get on with the reforms that would allow them to stay in power.

   • 2007, Steve Bates, Bible Crusade, page 79:

     In America's death camps, 1,500,000 babies annually are put to death in their mother's womb. The war being waged on the womb front killed more children than soldiers in the history of warfare.

使用する際の注意点

• Single-use extermination camps like Belzec, Kulmhof, Sobibor, Treblinka, were never called concentration camps in official Nazi parlance. This term was, however, used for “dual-use” camps like Auschwitz or Majdanek. Therefore the formerly mentioned may somtimes be called concentration camps as well.

同意語

• extermination camp

参照

• “death camp”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.