Definition of "concentration camp" []

• A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions. (noun)
• A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions. (noun)

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• "Langbehn had approached Himmler on behalf of his old law tutor, a Professor Fritz Pringsheim, when the latter had been thrown into a concentration camp (because of his Jewish ancestry)."
• "Yad Vashem's chairman Avner Shalev said the four blueprints, drawn at different points during 1941 by architects and engineers, show the evolution of Auschwitz-Birkenau from concentration camp to death camp."
• "Australia welcomes the recognition of 27 January - the anniversary of the day in 1945 whenRussian troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp - as an annual International Day of Commemoration to honour the victims of the Holocaust."