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Concentration camp | Facts, History, Maps, Definition | Britannica Concentration camp, internment center for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order
Concentration camp - Wikipedia A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment [1]
Concentration Camps, 1933–1939 | Holocaust Encyclopedia The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy
Concentration camps – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools Generally speaking, a concentration camp is a place where people are concentrated and imprisoned without trial Inmates are usually exploited for their labour and kept under harsh conditions, though this is not always the case
Concentration and Death Camps Chart - ThoughtCo From 1933 to 1945, the Nazis ran about 20 concentration camps (with multiple sub-camps) within Germany and Poland, constructed to remove political dissidents and anyone they considered "Untermenschen" (German for "subhuman") from the larger society
The Nazi Concentration Camp System - The National WWII Museum Images of barbed wire, striped prisoner uniforms, and gas chambers are embedded in our collective memory of World War II and the Holocaust Yet, as survivors tell us, the measures of dehumanization carried out at Nazi camps is one of their most powerful features
Holocaust survivor revisits site of childhood horrors | Opinion It was the first concentration camp built by Hitler Ironically, I was born the year Dachau opened to house political dissidents My father died near there four months after arriving from Terezin
concentration camp - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help The first concentration camps were established in 1933 for confinement of opponents of the Nazi Party The supposed opposition soon included all Jews, Roma (Gypsies), and certain other groups By 1939 there were six camps: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenbürg, and Ravensbrück
Nazi concentration camps - Wikipedia Although the word "concentration camp" has acquired the connotation of murder because of the Nazi concentration camps, the British camps in South Africa did not involve systematic murder