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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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Buildings were destroyed and concentration camp inmates sent on forced marches away from the death camps.
While modernity saw liberal democracy and pluralism, it also saw the concentration camp and the gulag.
Novales said there were about 1,200 prisoners inside the Davao concentration camp.
She turns to casual sexual encounters and tattoos her arm in the manner of a concentration camp prisoner.
The fate of the concentration camp commandants and the prison guards has never been made public.
I went by a local park the other day and it looked like a concentration camp crossed with a mass murder scene.

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