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This was one of the euphemisms for death camps. Disinfecting and delousing was also commonplace, but when used in parlance or official correspondence, it invariably referred to human extermination rather than bugs.

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Geez Hitler had some serious mental problems!
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It means that the News was taken inside concentration Camps and murdered. Also, this happened towards the end of the war even after Germany lost called the Final Solution. Where Jews were lined up in a pit and were shot. this was lead by Adolf Eichman.

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During the WW II Holocaust, some Jews (and other "undesirables") were sent into "delousing centers" at the concentration camps which were actually just chambers for killing them with poisonous gases. They were ordered to strip down and walk in, then the doors were shut and sealed, and the poisonous gas pumped into the chamber. Once they were all dead, the doors were opened and the bodies removed for disposal. The victims' glasses, artificial limbs, jewelry, and hair were removed, and any dental work was extracted so the gold could be melted down. The corpses were burned in the nearby incinerators, and the ashes were buried, thrown in the river, or used as fertilizer.

The chambers were usually disguised to look like they might actually be for purposes of delousing in order to prevent the victims from realizing what they actually were until it was too late, thus making it easier to herd them in without much resistance.

Note that there were some legitimate delousing operations early in the war due to concerns about increasing incidents of typhus. Typhus became virtually extinct in Germany before World War II, but during the war it rocketed to levels at least as high as during the World War I. It is hard to know whether the initially low rates of typhus in German-occupied Poland were due to energetic implementation of delousing and vaccination or because the disease was an inherently trivial problem before the German attack on the Soviet Union. Once disease rates began to spiral, typhus became caught up in the idea of genocide. The fear of infection was a pretext for isolating Jews.Previous delousing operations made it plausible to the victims that they were just entering delousing chamber rather than an extermination chamber.

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What does the word : euphemisms mean??

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