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What is a concentration camp?

What is a concentration camp? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities. [from 19th c.]
  2. (figuratively) A situation wherein crowding and extremely harsh conditions take place. [from 20th c.]
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While modernity saw liberal democracy and pluralism, it also saw the concentration camp and the gulag.
My dad was imprisoned in a concentration camp for having opposing opinions to other people who were around in our street.
Under his command the concentration camp was invented to contain Boer women, children and elderly men removed from their farms.
Buildings were destroyed and concentration camp inmates sent on forced marches away from the death camps.
She turns to casual sexual encounters and tattoos her arm in the manner of a concentration camp prisoner.
Novales said there were about 1,200 prisoners inside the Davao concentration camp.

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