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Concentration camp

noun

A penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions). Synonym: stockade.

A situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions.

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"Concentration camp" Quotes from Famous Books

... has been made a prisoner. He obeys his captors with the same docility with which he had previously obeyed his own officers. Left to themselves, and started on the right road, the prisoner will plod along, their N.C.O.'s saluting the English officers, and inquiring the way to the concentration camp. When they find it, ...

— Life in a Tank • Richard Haigh

... for all troops to detrain, so I sought the earliest opportunity of finding Miss Goche. Nap came with me. The only clue I had was that she had been removed to a concentration camp at Berlin. I found that camp. A military officer who could speak English saluted as we approached and informed us that all foreign military prisoners had been transferred to Belgium and ...

— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor