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concentration camp
[kon-suhn-trey-shuhn kamp]
noun
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.
a Nazi prison camp or death camp prior to and during World War II.
concentration camp
noun
a guarded prison camp in which nonmilitary prisoners are held, esp one of those in Nazi Germany in which millions were exterminated
concentration camp
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.)
Word History and Origins
Origin of concentration camp1
Example Sentences
This was followed by the introduction of concentration camps, she added.
Ravensbrück, located 50 miles north of Berlin, was a concentration camp built for women, where as many as 40,000 perished before the war’s end.
He said Holocaust history was more commonly linked to places such as the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, and he added: "You don't think about Wolverhampton and the Jewish refugees who fled there."
A family said they have felt haunted for 80 years by a piece of a lampshade made from human skin seized from a concentration camp and brought home for evidence.
Inside was a scene of unimaginable horror, one that recalled Nazi concentration camps: crematorium ovens, charred human remains, bone fragments.
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