Concentration Camp Definition

noun
A camp in which political dissidents, members of minority ethnic groups, etc. are confined.
Webster's New World
A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions.
American Heritage

A camp where large numbers of persons—such as political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees—are detained for the purpose of concentrating them in one place.

Wiktionary
A camp or premises in which persons considered to be undesirable by those who control it are hidden away, mistreated, and even killed.
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Noun

Singular:
concentration camp
Plural:
concentration-camps

Concentration Camp Sentence Examples

  • After he traveled to Malta in 1943, he painted the liberated Belsen concentration camp and Japanese prisoner of war camps in Singapore.

  • In this excellent Concentration Camp we are fast recovering from the shock of coming to England.

  • He was jailed in 1937 for his speeches, and Hitler eventually had Martin confined to a concentration camp throughout World War II.

  • The only set-back was the descent which Beyers made upon Pietersburg, breaking into the concentration camp and carrying off a number of able-bodied refugees.

  • Europe - you stifled the voice of God, and so you invented the concentration camp and the Atom Bomb.

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