concentration camp
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con·cen·tra·tion camp
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a place where large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the camps established by the Nazis.
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Backgrounder: Auschwitz Concentration Camp: testimony to Holocaust
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 1/25/2005; 700+ words
; ...majority of them died in the camp. The victims were mainly Jews...approached, the Nazis evacuated the camp on Jan. 17-18, 1945 and...prisoners to march to other concentration camps in Germany. In order to remove...and destroyed documents. The camp was liberated on Jan. 27...
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Auschwitz/concentration camps time line.(SKILLS MASTER)(Chronology)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 4/25/2005; 700+ words
; ...Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp, was actually...of three large camps. The main Auschwitz camp--built near...were the first concentration camps established...extermination camp? 5. What was...
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FORMER NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARD DEPORTED TO AUSTRIA
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 3/14/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...two Nazi-operated concentration camps was deported yesterday...Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Nazi-occupied...guard at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, tens of thousands...at the concentration camps where Hammer stood...disclose his concentration camp ...
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America's concentration camps
Newspaper article from: Michigan Citizen; 2/4/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...04-1995 America's concentration camps. I remember when I was...relocation" or "evacuation" camps being used instead of concentration camps and "non-alien...people in America's concentration camps. They are stories of...
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COURT REVOKES U.S. CITIZENSHIP OF FORMER NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARD
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 7/25/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...activity as a Nazi concentration camp guard during World...Warsaw Concentration Camps, constituted assistance...part of the Nazi concentration camp program of annihilation...assigned to Warsaw Concentration Camp, which was...various concentration camps to ...
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 "The Capital Times (Madison, WI)")
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1ST CONCENTRATION CAMP SHOCKS GIS.(LIFESTYLE)(SERIES: Remembrance)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 4/4/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...in occupied Poland). The concentration camps and their subsidiary...Ohrdruf had been a labor camp ... as many as 10,000 men...most of the prisoners to other camps or killed them. Small in comparison to other camps ... it was in fact a minor sub-camp of Buchenwald." The nearby...
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MOVES TO REVOKE U.S. CITIZENSHIP OF FORMER NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARD
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 10/28/1999; ; 631 words
; ...1943, it had become the second largest concentration camp after Auschwitz. Warsaw Concentration Camp was a smaller camp, opened after the suppression of the...to Warsaw from various concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and forced to...
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"The comfortable concentration camp": the significance of Nazi imagery in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963).(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: American Jewish History; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...their own death in the concentration camps.... " (1) Friedan...comfortable concentration camps" to refer to suburban...comfortable concentration camp." Feminist scholar...refused to discuss her camp analogy in any detail...tortured its victims in camps, and selected ...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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TALES OF AMERICAN `CONCENTRATION CAMPS' PERPETUATE SLANDER.(Editorial)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 9/23/1996; 700+ words
; ...about America's ``concentration camps'' during the Second...first of the relocation camps as a concentration camp. Now they are trying...term ``concentration camp'' has carried evil...used concentration camps to stage the Holocaust...
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How did they survive? Mechanisms of defense in Nazi concentration camps
Magazine article from: American Journal of Psychotherapy; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...of Defense in Nazi Concentration Camps* Death in a Nazi concentration camp requires no explanation...imprisonment in various concentration camps, he feels that two...the prisoner in the camp. The camps were, in fact, run...
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Concentration Camps
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Concentration Camps The concentration camp has become a...concentration camp as “...concentration camps have become synonymous...perished in the Nazi camps of Treblinka...soldiers. The Nazi concentration camp spawned immense...
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concentration camps
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...x2019; the concentration camps now had a further...prisoners. New camp sites were now...Ravensbrück camp was built to accommodate...Eicke's system of concentration camps; after this he...of Concentration Camps until 1945. A standard concentration camp ...
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concentration camp
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
concentration camp a detention site outside...used to describe prison camps used by the Spanish military...During World War II concentration camps were established...malnutrition and killings in concentration camps for Muslim, Croat...
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Giado Concentration Camp
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
GIADO CONCENTRATION CAMP An internment camp for Libyan Jews. During World War...were taken to internment and labor camps in Tripolitania between May and October...of these were sent to Giado. The camp was administered by Italian officers...
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The Japanese Internment Camps (1942)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
THE JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS (1942) In 1942, President...relocation centers," or concentration camps, on the West Coast. These...confined in makeshift rural camps for up to four years before...before being transported to a camp in Jerome, Arkansas. Leah...
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