Synonyms for concentration camp


Grammar : Noun

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Définition of concentration camp

Origin :
  • 1901, "compound for noncombatants in a war zone" (see concentration); a controversial idea from the second Boer War (1899-1902), and the term emerged with a bad odor. In reference to prisons for dissidents and minorities in Nazi Germany from 1934, in Soviet Russia from 1935.
  • noun prison camp for prisoners of war or political prisoners
Example sentences :
  • The only clue I had was that she had been removed to a concentration camp at Berlin.
  • Extract from : « The Sequel » by George A. Taylor
  • Some seven hundred and fifty died while in this concentration camp.
  • Extract from : « The Soul of John Brown » by Stephen Graham
  • An unfavorable one meant the concentration camp for everybody.
  • Extract from : « Satan and the Comrades » by Ralph Bennitt
  • That was why the British finally put her in a concentration camp.
  • Extract from : « Mobilizing Woman-Power » by Harriot Stanton Blatch
  • Zorn, Larner and the Belas fared forth from the concentration camp followed by a company of soldiers carrying the big net.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various
  • And every passenger coach and freight train jammed with soldiers on their way to the concentration camp.
  • Extract from : « Over the Seas for Uncle Sam » by Elaine Sterne
  • If they find him he's afraid they may put him in a concentration camp, and of course if the Belgians sighted him they'd complain.
  • Extract from : « Non-combatants and Others » by Rose Macaulay
  • When the Concentration Camp broke up, this squadron had gone to occupy its new station at Gosport.
  • Extract from : « The War in the Air; Vol. 1 » by Walter Raleigh.
  • Three weeks later the company of amateur soldiers were warned to proceed to the concentration camp.
  • Extract from : « The Blower of Bubbles » by Arthur Beverley Baxter
  • Why hadn't any one yet shown me the great sight, the concentration camp?
  • Extract from : « Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley » by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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