concentration camp
Mass detention site
A concentration camp is a facility where people are confined without trial, typically under harsh conditions.
The term emerged in the late 19th century for camps holding civilian populations during wartime, but now evokes primarily the Nazi camps where millions of Jews and others were imprisoned, subjected to forced labor, and systematically murdered during World War II.
The term remains potent in political discourse: Critics called the detention centers concentration camps.
- HolocaustNazi genocide of Jews
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- Nazi GermanyHitler's fascist dictatorship
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- barracksSoldiers' residential building
roll call · gulag · prison camp · guard · survivor testimony · World War II · extermination · gas chamber · deportation · labor camp · smoke · ethnic cleansing · internment camp · Dachau · death camp · forced labor · Sachsenhausen · Nazi regime
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers, Shoah
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- WWII literaturewar memoirs, war diaries, war poetry, Holocaust memoir, survivor testimony
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- World War IIAllies, Nazi, Hitler, Axis, Third Reich
- WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, Holocaust
concentration campsanctuary
Protected sacred space
refuge · haven · freedom · liberty · safe haven
concentration camprefugee camp
Shelter site for displaced foreigners
relief camp · hospital · hospice · rescue center · aid station
concentration campdue process
Guaranteed judicial fairness
rule of law · prison · penitentiary · correctional facility · justice system
concentrate, concentration, concentrated, concentrating, concentrates, concentrations, unconcentrated