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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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My dad was imprisoned in a concentration camp for having opposing opinions to other people who were around in our street.
A standard concentration camp such as Dachau was divided into five departments.
While modernity saw liberal democracy and pluralism, it also saw the concentration camp and the gulag.
He was arrested by the German occupying forces in Amsterdam in 1942 and taken to the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
I think it's fairly obvious what that kind of process resembles, and if not a gulag, then some sort of concentration camp.
Novales said there were about 1,200 prisoners inside the Davao concentration camp.

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