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Duschgang

English translation: trip to the shower

01:46 Jan 28, 2005
German to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History
German term or phrase: Duschgang
Die meisten, die hier ankamen, lernten das Lager gar nicht kennen, sondern gingen direkt ins Gas. Die Logistik der SS war ausgekl¨¹gelt: Nur wenige Dutzend Meter von der Selektionsrampe entfernt standen links und rechts davon zwei Krematorien, in denen die Leichen aus den Gaskammern - bis zu 2000 pro "Duschgang", so der perfide Begriff der Nazis - verbrannt wurden.

I know the history and the meaning. Is it a word coined by Nazi?

TIA!
Jianming Sun
Local time: 21:23
English translation:trip to the shower
Explanation:
up to 2,000 per "trip to the shower", and no, the Nazis didn't invent the term Duschgang, they invented calling the execution a Duschgang.

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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 07:23
Grading comment
Thank you all for help! I guess I had better close it. What a sad story! Let's hope horrible things like that will never happen again!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2trip to the shower
Kim Metzger
4shower batch
swisstell
4turn in the showers
Robert Schlarb


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
shower batch


Explanation:
has approximately the same horrible meaning

swisstell
Italy
Local time: 15:23
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 12
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
trip to the shower


Explanation:
up to 2,000 per "trip to the shower", and no, the Nazis didn't invent the term Duschgang, they invented calling the execution a Duschgang.



Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 07:23
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 212
Grading comment
Thank you all for help! I guess I had better close it. What a sad story! Let's hope horrible things like that will never happen again!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Johanna Timm, PhD
10 mins
agree  writeaway
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
turn in the showers


Explanation:
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/25/auschw...
As I turned left at the end of the road toward the gas chambers, the snow started up again, this time a driving shower mixed with sleet, the pellets stinging my face. Keeping my head down, I could imagine the prisoners' feelings of desolation and despair as they were forced to wait in a stand of birch trees by the side of the road for their turn in the "showers."



Robert Schlarb
Local time: 15:23
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 16
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