concentration camps
Mass imprisonment facilities
Concentration camps are detention facilities where people are confined without trial, typically under harsh conditions.
The term gained its darkest association with Nazi Germany's camps during World War II, where millions of Jews and others were imprisoned, subjected to forced labor, and systematically murdered.
The term now applies to any mass detention of civilians by a state: China's concentration camps for Uyghurs, the concentration camps on the southern border.
Such usage is often contested as either apt comparison or inappropriate hyperbole.
- HolocaustNazi genocide of Jews
- never againPermanent refusal to repeat
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- Third ReichHitler's totalitarian German state
- prisoners of warCaptured combatants held during hostilities
Dachau · political prisoners · Auschwitz · forced labour · slave labor · cattle cars · death marches · World War II · killing fields · mass incarceration · Kristallnacht · war · ethnic cleansing · barbed wire · Gestapo · guard towers · resistance movements · human rights violations
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers, Shoah
- Jewish HistoryHolocaust, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- Boer WarBoer War, Transvaal, Orange Free State, scorched earth, Pretoria
- Holocaust LiteratureAnne Frank, Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz, survivor testimony, Anne Frank diary
- WWII GermanyNazi Germany, Nazi Party, Nazi regime, Third Reich, Wehrmacht
concentration campsfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberation · liberty · free society · free movement · emancipation
concentration campsrefugee camps
Temporary housing for displaced persons
resettlement programs · civil rights · citizenship · inclusion · amnesty
concentrate, concentration, camps, concentrated, concentrating, concentrates, unconcentrated