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concentration camp

con·cen·tra·tion camp (plural con·cen·tra·tion camps)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. Nazi camp for exterminating prisoners: any of the prison camps used for exterminating prisoners under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately, resulting in the extermination of more than six million people.

2. prison camp for civilians in war: a prison camp used in war for the incarceration of political prisoners or civilians

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