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concentration camp

[ kon-suhn-trey-shuhn kamp ]

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.


concentration camp

noun

  1. a guarded prison camp in which nonmilitary prisoners are held, esp one of those in Nazi Germany in which millions were exterminated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


concentration camp

  1. A place for assembling and confining political prisoners and enemies of a nation. Concentration camps are particularly associated with the rule of the Nazis in Germany , who used them to confine millions of Jews (see also Jews ) as a group to be purged from the German nation. Communists , Gypsies , homosexuals, and other persons considered undesirable according to Nazi principles, or who opposed the government, were also placed in concentration camps and eventually executed in large groups. ( See Holocaust .)


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Word History and Origins

Origin of concentration camp1

First recorded in 1900–05, applied originally to camps where noncombatants were placed during the Boer War
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Example Sentences

Sixty-three men from the concentration camp were arrested and found guilty of resisting the draft after the Roosevelt administration found it expedient to throw the very people it persecuted onto the wartime front lines for the United States.

Between January 7-11, the merchandise platform Teespring banned 26 users from its site for selling merchandise that made reference to the concentration camp Auschwitz.

From Digiday

He, like many soldiers, had never even heard of concentration camps.

From Ozy

According to the ratings – which still regulate theater releases – penises can be shown in nonsexual situations, such as when they appear during a concentration camp scene in “Schindler’s List.”

It culminates in a mission where you are liberating a concentration camp.

From Time

Within a concentration camp, would someone make a joke about the number, the tattooed number?

She described the influence of her mother, a concentration camp survivor.

When Norman Manea was five years old, he was shipped to a concentration camp in Transnistria, Ukraine.

Camp Liberty was “a concentration camp” and “an extermination camp,” he said.

After a while, it becomes clear that this was his adolescent attempt to imagine what it was like to be in a concentration camp.

We were only thirty miles from the concentration camp at Dachau, but we knew nothing about it at this time.

Some seven hundred and fifty died while in this concentration camp.

The pallor and gauntness of the concentration camp lay upon him, but his race was used to oppression.

The bloodboltered shambles in act five is a forecast of the concentration camp sung by Mr Swinburne.

This was the concentration camp whence brigades were despatched for a spell of trench-digging and guard duty at the outpost line.

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